History
Sugamo Station opened on 1 April 1903 as a Nippon Railway Yamanote Line stop, with freight service added the same day. The line was nationalised in 1906 and the Yamanote-Yamate freight separation between Ikebukuro and Sugamo was completed in December 1924, giving the section its current quadruple-track layout. The Toei Subway No. 6 Line — now the Mita Line — reached Sugamo on 27 December 1968 and was extended south to Hibiya on 30 June 1972. JR East took over at JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987, the JR-side Atre Vie Sugamo retail building opened on 25 March 2010, and platform-edge doors entered service on 29 June 2013.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Just north of the station runs Jizō-dōri, a long shopping street so popular with older women that it has been nicknamed the "Harajuku for Grannies."