History
Kanda Station opened on 1 March 1919 when the Chuo Main Line was extended from the former Manseibashi Station to Tokyo Station, operated by the Railway Ministry. On 1 November 1925 the Tōhoku Main Line was extended from Akihabara to Kanda and onward to Tokyo, completing the loop of the Yamanote Line and bringing Keihin-Tohoku and Yamanote services to the station. The Tokyo Underground Railway (predecessor of the Tokyo Metro Ginza Line) opened a separate subway station on 21 November 1931, initially as the line's new northern terminus. With the privatization of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 the JR portion came under JR East, and the Ginza Line portion was inherited by Tokyo Metro on 1 April 2004 after the privatization of the Teito Rapid Transit Authority. Keihin-Tōhoku rapid services began stopping at the station on 14 March 2015, and station numbering was introduced in 2016, assigning JC02, JK27, JY02, and G13.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
From 2 October 2023, JR East added "Earth Pharmaceutical Head Office Mae" as a sub-name to the JR Kanda Station, and the Yamanote Line platforms now use the jingle from the Mondamin oral hygiene brand commercials as the departure melody — a five-year arrangement scheduled to run through 30 September 2028.