History
Ueno-okachimachi opened on 12 December 2000 with the full opening of the Toei Ōedo Line and immediately began joint-station operations with Tokyo Metro Ueno-hirokōji (Ginza Line) and Naka-okachimachi (Hibiya Line) and JR East Okachimachi (Yamanote / Keihin-Tōhoku). The provisional name during planning had been "Ueno-hirokōji", which would have duplicated the existing Ginza Line stop. The Ueno-Chūō-dōri pedestrian underpass connecting the station to Keisei Ueno opened on 16 March 2009. PASMO became usable on 18 March 2007, and platform-edge doors entered service in 2012. The Toei station-management hierarchy was reorganised in 2015 and again on 1 April 2016, after which the Ueno-okachimachi District covers all Ōedo Line stops between Ushigome-Kagurazaka and Shin-Okachimachi.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Ridership at Ueno-okachimachi grew rapidly past planners' forecasts: the projected daily boarding figure at opening in 2000 was 42,000, but average daily boardings in fiscal 2024 reached 28,101 — making the combined boarding+alighting total well above the original 42,000 ride-pair projection.