Asakusabashi

History

Asakusabashi Station opened on 1 July 1932 on the Sōbu Line in Asakusabashi, Taitō Ward, Tokyo. Toei Subway Line 1 — today's Asakusa Line — opened a station here on 4 December 1960, making this an interchange. JNR built a new east-side station building incorporating the subway connecting passage on 22 April 1963. Line 1 was rebranded as the Asakusa Line on 1 July 1978. On 29 November 1985 the station was a target of the National Railway simultaneous guerrilla incidents — a protest against JNR's pending privatisation by the Chūkaku-ha faction that included an attack on the station — and JNR services were suspended here all day, though the parallel Toei line continued normally. JR East took over on 1 April 1987 at JNR's privatisation. Suica IC cards were accepted from 18 November 2001 and PASMO on the Toei side from 18 March 2007.

History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.

Notes

During the National Railway simultaneous guerrilla incidents on 29 November 1985, the Chūkaku-ha occupied and set fire to Asakusabashi as part of a protest against JNR's privatisation, forcing the JNR side to suspend service all day; trains on the Toei Asakusa Line below ran normally.