History
Shin-Kiba Station sits on landfill in Kōtō, Tokyo, and was opened in stages across three operators. The Teito Rapid Transit Authority's Yūrakuchō Line terminus opened on 8 June 1988, followed by the JR East Keiyō Line platforms on 1 December 1988, which became a through stop after the Keiyō Line was extended to Tokyo Station on 10 March 1990. The Tokyo Waterfront Area Rapid Transit station was added on 30 March 1996 as the eastern end of the Rinkai Line. The Teito subway operation passed to Tokyo Metro on 1 April 2004, platform-edge doors entered service on the Yūrakuchō Line on 29 June 2013, and Rinkai Line platform doors followed on 18 October 2025.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station's name plaque is carved from a single piece of Ibaraki-grown zelkova wood roughly 150 years old, six metres long, ninety centimetres tall and twenty-three centimetres thick — a nod to the timber yards that historically lined Shin-Kiba.