【Tips】What are the representative colors of Tokyo Metro?

The representative color is red.

Since this line connects Shinjuku Station, Tokyo Station and Ikebukuro Station, and is one of the most heavily trafficked lines on the Tokyo Metro, many people think that the red color of the Marunouchi Line is a manifestation of the Tokyo Metro’s main artery. However, the real source of the red color is probably the color of the cigarette packets seen in the United Kingdom during a visit to the United Kingdom at the beginning of the Marunouchi Line’s construction. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

By the way, I would like to mention. The color red was chosen to represent the city’s major subway arteries, but the Midosuji Line, which passes through Shin-Osaka Station (a Shinkansen station), Umeda Station (the record holder for the largest number of one-day boardings and alightings of any single line in Japan, and the largest shopping district in Western Japan), Shinsaibashi Station (a tourist attraction), and Namba Station (one of the two central areas of Osaka, with North Umeda and South Namba), is the only one in Osaka. The Midosuji Line. The color of the Midosuji Line is not red, but blush. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

The representative color is silver，although at first glance it may appear to be gray.

As we mentioned earlier, the source of the representative colors for the early five lines was the color of the car bodies. After the construction of the Hibiya Line, it was the first time that an all-stainless steel body model was used, and no other colorful paint was used. Therefore, the Hibiya Line is actually a low-profile, shiny stainless steel and silver color.

The representative color is light blue。

The Tokyo Metro East-West Line, which connects Tokyo, Chiba and Saitama, is the subway line that carries the largest number of people in Tokyo Metro in Japan. After the Hibiya line, all stainless steel cars without paint were also used. In order not to overlap with the Hibiya Line, the cars were painted with an aqua horizontal stripe and the color was adopted as their representative color.

The reason for the choice of water color, there is a theory that the study of the inner line of the pill, using the water color on the packaging of cigarettes [hi-lite], also called high-light blue (high-light blue), the same name as the cigarette. I don’t know if I should say it’s just the right Japanese joke.

The representative color is green.

One reason for the green color is that the Chiyoda Line passes by many green facilities and parks, such as the National Diet Hall and Yoyogi Park. However, if you check the color hexadecimal code, you can see that the green color used on the Chiyoda Line is inherited from the JR Joban Line.

The representative color is gold.

Starting with the Yurakucho Line, all subsequent Metrorail lines have been built with a representative color before starting construction. The Yurakucho Line passes through busy streets such as Ginza, and the Japanese pronunciation of the word Yurakucho gives a sense of sophistication, so a high class gold color was used as the representative color for this line. As for the reason why a relatively low-profile earthy gold color was used instead of the real shiny gold, I guess it has something to do with the low-profile character of Japanese people who don’t want to be in the limelight.

The representative color is purple.

Purple is a noble and elegant color for Japanese people. There are many reasons for choosing purple, including the fact that the Hanzomon Line is named after the gate to the imperial residence, and that the Hanzomon Line passes through areas of high status in the past. The simplest theory is that they wanted to find a different color for the new line than other lines, but one that was more eye-catching, so they chose light purple.

The representative color is Emerald green.

If the East-West Line is the main artery that runs east and west through the heart of Tokyo, the North-South Line is the blood vessel that runs north and south through Tokyo. There are many beautiful old gardens along the line, such as the Old Furukawa Gardens and Rokugien Gardens, and that is why this line uses the elegant emerald green as its representative color, right?

The representative color is blown.

This line is the last of the nine Tokyo Metro lines to be completed, and it is the only one that does not pass through Chiyoda district. When choosing the representative color for this line, the predecessors had almost all the other colors, so in order not to duplicate other lines and to stand out, they chose brown as the representative color.

However, although its representative color does not look so impressive, it is the only Metro line that passes through the three sub-centers of Ikebukuro, Shinjuku and Shibuya!