History
Kameido Station opened on 29 March 1904 as a Sōbu Railway stop in present-day Kameido 5-chōme, Kōtō; the Tōbu Railway Kameido Line platforms followed on 5 April 1904. The Sōbu line was nationalised on 1 September 1907, and direct through-running between the Tōbu and Sōbu sides ended for passengers on 27 March 1910 (freight continued until the new Kane goods line opened). The station was damaged in the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake and burned out in the 10 March 1945 Tokyo air-raid. JR East inherited the JR side at the 1987 nationwide breakup. The Atré Kameido station-tower took its present name on 24 March 2006, and the JR east-side ticket gate moved to remote-staff operation on 1 March 2021.
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
At opening, the Tōbu Kameido Line ran through onto the Sōbu Railway as far as Ryōgokubashi; passenger through-running ceased in 1910 but freight kept using the connection until the Shinkin freight line opened, after which the two operators' tracks became completely separate.