History
Takadanobaba Station's Yamanote Line platform opened on 15 September 1910 as a Tetsudō-in (Railway Bureau) station. Seibu Railway built a temporary station perpendicular to the Yamanote Line in April 1927 and moved it to its present parallel position east of the JR tracks in April 1928, with Takadanobaba serving as the Seibu Murayama (now Shinjuku) Line's Tokyo terminus until the extension to Seibu-Shinjuku Station in 1952. The original buildings burned in the April 1945 firebombing of Tokyo. The Teito Rapid Transit Authority's Tōzai Line reached the station on 23 December 1964 and was extended west to Nakano in March 1966. JR East took over from JNR at the April 1987 privatisation, and Tokyo Metro succeeded the TRTA in April 2004.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Since 1 March 2003, the Yamanote Line platform's departure jingle has been the theme from the original Astro Boy series, requested by the local Nishi-Shotenkai merchants because Osamu Tezuka's production studio was based in Takadanobaba and his Ministry of Science was set in the neighbourhood.