History
Higashi-Ikebukuro Station opened on 30 October 1974 when the Teito Rapid Transit Authority (TRTA) launched the inaugural Ikebukuro-to-Ginza-itchōme section of the Yūrakuchō Line, in Toshima Ward, Tokyo. The station is built around a single island platform on the second basement level, served by two escalators and an elevator. Control passed to Tokyo Metro on 1 April 2004 when the TRTA was privatised, and PASMO IC-card acceptance followed on 18 March 2007. Platform-edge doors entered service on 26 February 2011 as part of a network-wide Yūrakuchō Line rollout, with departure melodies introduced exactly a month later. The Toshima Eco-Museum Town complex was connected by an underground walkway in April 2015.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Although Tokyo Metro's Fukutoshin Line passes immediately to the west, no station was built when the line opened in 2008 — but ductile rather than reinforced-concrete tunnel segments were installed in the relevant stretch to ease construction of a future Higashi-Ikebukuro Fukutoshin station.