History
Tsukuba Station opened on 24 August 2005 as the northern terminus of the Tsukuba Express, the third-sector Metropolitan Intercity Railway Company line running 58.3 kilometres from Akihabara in Tokyo. The station sits underground with a single island platform serving two tracks, and is numbered TX20. It is located at the heart of the Tsukuba "science city" and adjoins the Tsukuba Center bus terminal, which long predates the railway. In fiscal 2023 the station was used by an average of 17,273 boarding passengers a day, reflecting strong demand from researchers, students and commuters to the National Capital Region.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The adjoining Tsukuba Center bus terminal opened in 1985 as Tsukuba Center Kotsu Hiroba for that year's Expo, two decades before the railway arrived.