History
Omotesandō Station traces its lineage to 18 November 1938, when the Tokyo Rapid Railway opened Aoyama-rokuchōme Station about 180 metres southwest of the present site; it became a through station on 20 December the same year and was renamed Jingūmae on 16 September 1939 after through-running with the Tokyo Underground Railway began. Operations passed to the Teito Rapid Transit Authority on 1 September 1941. The Chiyoda Line platforms opened on 20 October 1972, taking the present name, and the Hanzōmon Line platforms followed on 1 August 1978, when the Ginza Line moved into its current shared layout. Tokyo Metro inherited the station on 1 April 2004, and the Echika Omotesandō retail concourse opened on 2 December 2005.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Two scenes of Sofia Coppola's 2003 film Lost in Translation were shot on Omotesandō's Hanzōmon and Ginza Line platforms, drawing on the station's deep cross-platform interchange between Aoyama-bound services.