History
Hikifune Station opened on 1 April 1902 as an intermediate stop on the Tobu Isesaki Line between Azumabashi (now Tokyo Skytree) and Kita-Senju. The Kameido Line reached it on 5 April 1904, briefly suspending the Azumabashi link until passenger service resumed in 1910 and the station became a junction. The platforms were elevated on 21 February 1967. On 19 March 2003 the line was extended from Hikifune to Oshiage to inaugurate through-running with the Tokyo Metro Hanzōmon and Tōkyū Den-en-toshi lines, making Hikifune the branch point toward Asakusa and Oshiage. Station number TS 04 was assigned in March 2012, and beginning 6 June 2020 limited-express services started calling here.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station building on the east side collapsed during the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and was demolished; the site was reopened in April 2017 as Tokyo Hikifune Hospital, after which the station added the subtitle "Tokyo Hikifune Byōin-mae".