History
Hon-komagome Station opened on 26 March 1996 as a Teito Rapid Transit Authority (TRTA) stop on the Namboku Line in Bunkyō Ward, Tokyo, 13.6 km from the line's southern terminus at Meguro. Construction required a major 268 m cut-and-cover excavation up to 14 m wide and 21 m deep, with the Meguro-side entrance integrated into the basement of the 1991-built Hon-komagome SO building. The station became a contracted-management stop in April 2002, and operation passed to Tokyo Metro upon TRTA's privatisation on 1 April 2004. PASMO IC-card acceptance began on 18 March 2007, and the original Yoshimura Hiroshi-composed Namboku-Line-wide departure jingle was replaced with station-specific Switch-produced melodies on 13 March 2015.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station's name reflects an old administrative split: Edo-era Komagome Village was divided into upper and lower halves, and after the Meiji reforms the lower half became Hon-komagome ("main Komagome") of Bunkyō, distinct from the upper Komagome that ended up in Toshima Ward.