History
Ueno Station opened on 28 July 1883 as Nippon Railway's terminus for the Ueno-Kumagaya line, and a permanent brick station building was completed in 1885. The line was nationalised in 1906 and incorporated into the Tōhoku Main Line. After the original building burned in the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake, the present second-generation station opened in April 1932. Tokyo Underground Railway (now Tokyo Metro Ginza Line) extended its line to Ueno in 1927, and the Hibiya Line platform opened in 1961. The Tōhoku Shinkansen reached Ueno in March 1985 and was extended south to Tokyo Station in 1991, while the Ueno-Tokyo Line through-service to the Tōkaidō Line opened in March 2015.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
When the foundations of the present second-generation station building were dug after the 1923 earthquake, workers unearthed bones, swords and lances dating from the 1868 Battle of Ueno that had been fought on the temple grounds the railway took over.