History
The Jōban Line platforms at Minami-Senju opened on 25 December 1896 as a stop on the private Nippon Railway. After nationalisation on 1 November 1906, the line carried the station name through the establishment of Japanese National Railways in 1949 and the 1 April 1987 break-up that transferred it to JR East. A Hibiya Line subway level operated by the Teito Rapid Transit Authority opened on 28 March 1961 and was inherited by Tokyo Metro at the 2004 privatisation. A third level for the Tsukuba Express opened on 24 August 2005. Departure-melody playback began on the Hibiya Line platforms on 7 February 2020.
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
The area immediately south of the station occupies the site of the Kozukappara execution grounds, which were active from 1651 to 1873 and where an estimated 100,000–200,000 people died during the Edo period; the Tokyo Metro tracks now run over part of the former burial ground.