History
Nishi-gahara Station (N 15) is a Tokyo Metro Namboku Line station in Nishi-gahara 2-chōme, Kita-ku, Tokyo. Excavation for archaeological remains started on 17 February 1986 and ended 9 October 1987 before construction began. The station opened on 29 November 1991, was made business-consigned in April 2002, was transferred to Tokyo Metro on 1 April 2004 when the Eidan Subway became Tokyo Metro, gained PASMO support on 18 March 2007, and on 13 March 2015 its departure-melody was changed from the Namboku-Line-wide tune to two station-specific compositions: 'Sakura-namiki o nozonde' by Yamazaki Yasuyuki for platform 1, and 'Kaze no yukue' by Fukushima Naoya for platform 2.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
Nishi-gahara is the lowest-ridership station in the Tokyo Metro network and is the only station in the system whose daily ridership falls below 10,000 — in fiscal 2024 it averaged 8,976 passengers per day, the smallest figure of any station on any of Tokyo's subway lines.