History
Rokuchō Station opened on 24 August 2005 — the same day the Tsukuba Express (Akihabara–Tsukuba) was inaugurated, when Aoi and Rokuchō stations both opened on the new line — in the Rokuchō 4-chōme district of Adachi, Tokyo. Adachi is the north-easternmost of Tokyo's 23 special wards, located between the Sumida and Arakawa rivers in the south and stretching across the Arakawa floodway northward. The Adachi article notes that the ward name derives from the historic Musashi-no-kuni Adachi District established after the Taika Reforms of 645, which extended from present-day Adachi into northern Saitama, and that the Senju area south of the Arakawa was the Senju-juku post town on the Nikkō and Ōshū highways in the Edo period — one of the four major post stations of Edo.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
The Adachi article records that the Senju-juku area was home to the Senju Vegetable Market, which it ranks as one of the "three great markets of Edo". Rokuchō Station — newly opened with the 2005 Tsukuba Express — sits well north of historic Senju, in an area where ongoing redevelopment has driven a steady rise in passenger numbers.