Ueno-hirokoji

Weekday departures: 652/day · Sat & holiday departures: 496/day

First / last train (weekday): 0:28 / 24:22

Busiest hour: 8:00–9:00 (50)

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

• Tokyo Metro Ginza Line: Ueno ⇄ Suehirocho (Tokyo)

Ueno-hirokōji Station opened on 1 January 1930 as a Tokyo Underground Railway stop on what is now the Tokyo Metro Ginza Line. The station was not in the original plan — only about 500 m south of Ueno — but was added after the operator learned Mitsukoshi was funding a Mitsukoshi-mae Station; rival department store Matsuzakaya petitioned to have Ueno-hirokōji built. Tokyo Underground Railway transferred the line to the Teito Rapid Transit Authority on 1 September 1941. A roughly 2.13 billion yen renovation tied to the new Toei Ōedo Line connection began in February 1996 and finished in June 2001; joint operations with Ueno-okachimachi and Naka-okachimachi began on 12 December 2000. Tokyo Metro succeeded the TRTA on 1 April 2004.

Because Ueno-hirokōji was added to the plans only after construction had begun, Matsuzakaya could not secure the lavish concessions Mitsukoshi got at Mitsukoshi-mae; its compromise contract barred the station from being named "Matsuzakaya-mae", from carrying advertising for any other department store, and from being skipped by any future express service.