Tawaramachi (Tokyo)

Weekday departures: 620/day · Sat & holiday departures: 496/day

First / last train (weekday): 0:05 / 24:22

Busiest hour: 18:00–19:00 (49)

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Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map.

• Tokyo Metro Ginza Line: Inaricho ⇄ Asakusa

Tawaramachi Station opened on 30 December 1927 as part of the Tokyo Underground Railway's Ueno-Asakusa section, the first section of true subway built in Asia. It took its name not from the address of the day (Asakusa-Matsukiyochō) but from a nearby Tokyo Streetcar stop also called Tawaramachi; the streetcar stop was renamed in the August 1965 address reform and abolished in November 1972, but the Ginza Line station kept the original name. Operation passed to the Teito Rapid Transit Authority on 1 September 1941 and to Tokyo Metro on 1 April 2004. Station-departure jingles were introduced on 16 June 2015, and platform-edge doors entered service on both platforms on 22 May 2017.

Befitting its proximity to Asakusa's entertainment district, Tawaramachi's platform walls carry decorative reliefs of the family crests of major kabuki acting houses where the wall meets the ceiling.