History
Waseda Station opened on 23 December 1964 as a stop on the Teito Rapid Transit Authority's Tōzai Line, in Waseda-Minamichō, Shinjuku, Tokyo. The station passed to Tokyo Metro on 1 April 2004 with the privatisation of the Eidan subway operator and accepted PASMO IC cards from 18 March 2007. Departure melodies composed by Minoru Mukaiya — "A Day in the METRO" on track 1 and "Beyond the Metropolis" on track 2 — have been used since 26 May 2015. The underground station has two side platforms serving two tracks; the entrance closer to Waseda University connects directly to a dedicated University-side ticket barrier. There are no escalators, but a lift on the opposite side of the road from Exit 3 reaches the Nishi-Funabashi-bound concourse. The station carries the code T 04 and is not officially linked to the similarly named Toden Arakawa Line Waseda stop, which sits roughly 600 metres away on Shin-mejiro-dōri.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Despite sharing the Waseda name with the Toden Arakawa streetcar stop, the two stations sit roughly 600 metres apart along Shin-mejiro-dōri and are not officially treated as a transfer point.