History
Edogawabashi Station opened on 30 October 1974 on the Teito Rapid Transit Authority's Yūrakuchō Line, at Sekiguchi 1-chōme in Bunkyō Ward. The station was constructed under the Kanda River with the Shuto Expressway 5 Ikebukuro Line piers and a planned river-diversion tunnel forcing the platforms onto an S-shaped curve, and two or three crew members must still stand at platform-mid to handle dispatch sightlines. The station passed from the TRTA to Tokyo Metro at the 1 April 2004 privatisation. PASMO became usable on 18 March 2007, and platform-edge doors entered service on 13 August 2011, the same day Switch-composed station-departure jingles by Hiroshi Shiozuka (Track 1) and Naoya Fukushima (Track 2) were introduced.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
The station's name comes from a Mejiro-dōri bridge over a 2.1 km middle reach of the Kanda River that was historically called Edogawa, famed in the Edo era for its cherry trees and fireflies; the river's official name was unified to Kanda in August 1970 and the local Edogawa-chō addresses were dissolved by July 1966, so the station, bridge, and a few parks and schools are now among the few places preserving the old name.