History
Kita-Ikebukuro Station traces back to 1 May 1934, when Tōbu Horinouchi Station opened at the same site on what is now the Tōbu Tōjō Line. The original station building was destroyed by fire during the bombing of Tokyo on 13 April 1945, with services suspended from 20 May and the stop formally closed on 29 August 1947. A new Kita-Ikebukuro Station opened on the same ground on 1 September 1951. The current single island platform is reached from the west-side entrance by an underground passage. Station numbering reached the Tōjō Line on 17 March 2012, assigning this stop TJ-02; only local services stop.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
For a brief period after the war, a Japanese National Railways steam locomotive bound for Grant Heights Station (built to serve the U.S. occupation housing area in Nerima) ran onto the line from the Nishiyama signal box between Ikebukuro and this station.