Kita-Senju Station

Kita-Senju Station (北千住駅, Kitasenju-eki) (lit. "North Senju station") is a major interchange railway station in the Senju district of Adachi, Tokyo, Japan. Kita-Senju is the third-busiest station on the Tokyo Metro network, after Ikebukuro and Otemachi. It is the tenth-busiest JR East station.^[1]

JJ05 TS09 H22 C18 Kita-Senju Station 北千住駅
The west side of Kita-Senju Station in August 2017
General information
Location	Adachi, Tokyo Japan
Operated by	JR East Tobu Railway Tokyo Metro Metropolitan Intercity Railway Company
Line(s)	JJ Joban Line (Rapid) TS Tobu Skytree Line H Hibiya Line C Chiyoda Line Tsukuba Express
Other information
Station code	H-22, C-18, 05, TS-09
History
Opened	December 25, 1896 (JR East) August 27, 1899 (Tobu Railway) December 20, 1969 (Tokyo Metro) August 24, 2005 (Metropolitan Intercity Railway Company)
Passengers
JR East, FY2013	203,428 daily
Services
Preceding station JR East Following station Nippori NPRJJ02 towards Shinagawa Jōban Line Special Rapid Matsudo JJ06 towards Tsuchiura Minami-Senju JJ04 towards Shinagawa Jōban Line Rapid Matsudo JJ06 towards Toride Jōban Line Local-Futsuu Matsudo JJ06 towards Sendai
Other services TS H C Preceding station Tobu Railway Following station Tokyo Skytree TS02 towards Asakusa Spacia X Kasukabe TS27 towards Tōbu–Nikkō or Kinugawa–Onsen Hikifune TS04 towards Asakusa Kegon Kasukabe TS27 towards Tōbu–Nikkō Kinu Kasukabe TS27 towards Kinugawa–Onsen Tokyo Skytree TS02 towards Asakusa Aizu Kasukabe TS27 towards Shin-Fujiwara Hikifune TS04 towards Asakusa Ryomo Tōbu-Dōbutsu-Kōen TS30 towards Kuzū, Akagi or Isesaki Skytree Liner Kasukabe TS27 Terminus Hikifune One-way operation Urban Park Liner From Asakusa Sengendai TS24 towards Ōmiya or Kashiwa Hikifune TS04 towards Oshiage Skytree Line Express Nishiarai TS13 towards Tōbu-Dōbutsu-Kōen Ushida TS08 towards Asakusa Skytree Line Section Express Hikifune TS04 towards Oshiage Skytree Line Semi Express Ushida TS08 towards Asakusa Skytree Line Section Semi Express Skytree Line Local Kosuge TS10 towards Tōbu-Dōbutsu-Kōen through to Hibiya Line Preceding station Tsukuba Express Following station Minami-Senju (TX04) towards Akihabara Tsukuba Express Rapid Yashio (TX08) towards Tsukuba Tsukuba Express Commuter-Rapid Rokuchō (TX07) towards Tsukuba Tsukuba Express Semi-Rapid Yashio (TX08) towards Tsukuba Tsukuba Express Local Aoi (TX06) towards Tsukuba Preceding station Tokyo Metro Following station Minami-senju H21 towards Naka-meguro Hibiya Line through to Skytree Line Ōtemachi C11 towards Hakone-Yumoto, Gotemba or Katase-Enoshima Romancecar Terminus Machiya C17 towards Yoyogi-Uehara Chiyoda Line Ayase C19 towards Kita-Ayase
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Lines

Kita-Senju Station is served by the following lines.

• JR East Joban Line
• Tobu Skytree Line
• Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line
• Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line
• Tsukuba Express

Station layout

JR East

JR East platforms are on ground level.

1-2	JJ Joban Line (Rapid)	for Matsudo, Toride, Tsuchiura, Ishioka, and Mito ■ Narita Line for Narita
2-3	JJ Joban Line (Rapid)	for Nippori, Ueno JU Ueno-Tokyo Line for Tokyo and Shinagawa

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  North exit of JR Kita-Senju Station, 2019
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  JR East platforms

Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line

The Chiyoda Line platforms are underground.

1	C Chiyoda Line	for Nishi-nippori, Otemachi, and Yoyogi-uehara Odakyu Odawara Line for Hon-Atsugi and Isehara □ Romancecar for Hakone-Yumoto and Katase-Enoshima
2	C Chiyoda Line	for Ayase, Kita-ayase JL Jōban Line (Local) for Matsudo, Abiko and Toride

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  Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line ticket gates
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  Chiyoda Line platforms with new platform screen doors installed, 2019

Tobu Skytree Line and Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line

Platforms 1 to 4 are located on ground level (the first floor), and platforms 5 to 7 are elevated (the third floor).

1, 2	TS Tobu Skytree Line	Limited Express services for Tōbu Nikkō, Kinugawa-Onsen, Akagi, Kuzū, Ashikagashi, Ōmiya, Ōta, Isesaki, and Tōbu Utsunomiya Other services for Shin-Koshigaya, Tōbu-Dōbutsu-Kōen, Kuki, Tatebayashi and Minami-Kurihashi
3, 4	TS Tobu Skytree Line	for Oshiage and Asakusa Z Hanzōmon Line for Ōtemachi, Shibuya DT Den-en-toshi Line for Chūō-Rinkan
5	TS Tobu Skytree Line (Through trains from Hibiya Line)	for Takenotsuka, Kita-Koshigaya, Kita-Kasukabe, Tōbu-Dōbutsu-Kōen, and Minami-Kurihashi
6, 7	H Hibiya Line	for Ueno, Ginza, Roppongi, and Naka-Meguro

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  Central ticket gates, 2016
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  North ticket gates, 2018
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  Tobu Skytree Line platforms at the first floor, 2016
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  Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line platforms at the third floor, 2021
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  Track diagram for Hibiya Line and Tobu Line

Metropolitan Intercity Railway Company

The Tsukuba Express platforms are elevated.

1	Tsukuba Express	for Minami-Nagareyama, Moriya, and Tsukuba
2	Tsukuba Express	for Akihabara

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  Tsukuba Express platforms

History

Funeral mourners in front of Kita-Senju Station in 1932

The JR East station opened on 25 December 1896.^[2] The Tobu station opened three years later on August 27, with through services with the Hibiya Line commencing in 1962. The Tokyo Metro platforms opened as the initial northern terminus of the Chiyoda line in 1969. The Tsukuba Express station opened on August 24, 2005.

From 17 March 2012, station numbering was introduced on all Tobu lines, with Kita-Senju Station becoming "TS-09".^[3]

The station facilities of the Hibiya and Chiyoda Lines were inherited by Tokyo Metro after the privatization of the Teito Rapid Transit Authority (TRTA) in 2004.^[4]

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2013, the JR East station was used by an average of 203,428 passengers daily (boarding passengers only), making it the tenth-busiest station operated by JR East.^[1] In fiscal 2013, the Tokyo Metro Chiyoda station was used by an average of 283,962 passengers per day and the Tokyo Metro Hibiya station was used by an average of 291,466 passengers per day. Note that the latter statistics consider passengers who travel through Kita-Senju station on a through service as users of the station, even if they did not disembark at the station. The Chiyoda Line station is the third-busiest on the Tokyo Metro network which does not offer through services onto other lines.^[5] The JR East passenger figures for previous years are as shown below.

Fiscal year	Daily average
2000	183,611[6]
2005	177,104[7]
2010	195,260[8]
2011	194,136[9]
2012	198,624[10]
2013	203,428[1]

Found in online news in the middle of 2024, Kita-Senju is one of the 50 busiest train stations in the world with an average number of 1.5 million people using the station everyday.^[11][12]

See also

• List of railway stations in Japan

References

1. 各駅の乗車人員 （2013年度） [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2013)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. Archived from the original on 6 May 2001. Retrieved 31 August 2014.
2. 日本国有鉄道停車場一覧 [JNR Station Directory]. Japan: Japanese National Railways. 1985. p. 103. ISBN 4-533-00503-9.
3. 「東武スカイツリーライン」誕生！ あわせて駅ナンバリングを導入し、よりわかりやすくご案内します [Tobu Sky Tree Line created! Station numbering to be introduced at same time] (PDF). Tobu News (in Japanese). Tobu Railway. 9 February 2012. Archived from the original (pdf) on 8 August 2012. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
4. "「営団地下鉄」から「東京メトロ」へ" [From "Teito Rapid Transit Authority" to "Tokyo Metro"]. Tokyo Metro Online (in Japanese). 2006-07-08. Archived from the original on 16 May 2012. Retrieved 29 May 2022.
5. 各駅の乗降人員ランキング [Station usage ranking] (in Japanese). Tokyo Metro. Retrieved 31 August 2014.
6. 各駅の乗車人員 （2000年度） [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2000)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. Archived from the original on 9 October 2014. Retrieved 1 August 2013.
7. 各駅の乗車人員 （2005年度） [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2005)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. Archived from the original on 9 October 2014. Retrieved 1 August 2013.
8. 各駅の乗車人員 （2010年度） [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2010)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 1 August 2013.
9. 各駅の乗車人員 （2011年度） [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2011)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. Archived from the original on 8 October 2014. Retrieved 1 August 2013.
10. 各駅の乗車人員 （2012年度） [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2012)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. Archived from the original on 7 October 2014. Retrieved 31 August 2014.
11. "The Biggest and Busiest Train Stations In Japan". JRPass.com. Retrieved 2024-08-12.
12. "Japanese Train Stations - Japan By The Numbers". Samurai Tours. 2019-07-14. Retrieved 2024-08-12.

External links

• JR East Kita-Senju Station (in Japanese)
• Tobu Railway Kita-Senju Station (in English)
• Tokyo Metro Kita-Senju Station (in English)
• TX Kita-Senju Station (in English)

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