History
Shimo-Akatsuka Station opened on 29 December 1930 on what is now the Tobu Tojo Line, between Tōbu-Nerima and Narimasu and roughly 8.9 km from Ikebukuro. Only local services stop here. On 24 June 1983 the Teito Rapid Transit Authority's Yūrakuchō Line opened beneath National Route 254 at the nearby Eidan-Akatsuka (now Chikatetsu-Akatsuka) station, though no formal interchange is announced. Departure melodies were introduced on 18 March 2008. From 17 March 2012 the Tobu Tojo Line gained station numbering, and Shimo-Akatsuka was assigned TJ-09. The south-side station building has carried the integrated apartment block 'Shimo-Akatsuka Sunlight Mansion' since 1971; that property was rebranded 'Solaie I'll Shimo-Akatsuka' on 30 March 2018.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
After the Fukutoshin Line gave Tokyo Metro a direct route to Shinjuku and Shibuya in 2008, Shimo-Akatsuka's ridership entered a sustained decline; between 2009 and 2014 it ranked among the worst-performing 12 stations in central Tokyo by drop in daily users.