History
Nippori Station opened on 1 April 1905 when Nippon Railway completed the Mikawashima–Nippori section that finalised the current route. The line was nationalised on 1 November 1906 and assigned to the Tōhoku Main Line in 1909. The Keisei Electric Tramway platforms opened on 19 December 1931. On 18 June 1952 the wooden south footbridge collapsed onto Platform 10 as a train arrived, killing eight; the resulting reconfiguration cut Yanaka cemetery hillside back to build new platforms 11 and 12 in 1955. The Nippori-Toneri Liner opened on 30 March 2008, an elevated Keisei platform entered service on 3 October 2009, and the Ecute Nippori retail concourse fully reopened on 15 July 2020.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
When the Tohoku Shinkansen tracks were threaded through the station in the 1970s and early 1980s, JNR removed two conventional-line platforms to fit them in: those displaced platforms became gaps in the numbering, which is why Nippori's JR tracks today skip from Platform 4 to Platform 9.