History
Shirokane-takanawa Station opened on 26 September 2000 when the Teito Rapid Transit Authority's Namboku Line was extended to Meguro and the Toei Mita Line was simultaneously branched south from Mita; the two operators share four tracks between this station and Meguro. The platforms passed to Tokyo Metro on 1 April 2004 at the privatisation of the Teito Rapid Transit Authority. Air-conditioning was retrofitted in summer 2003, a fourth exit serving the new Shirokane Aer City complex opened on 30 November 2005, PASMO IC cards entered service on 18 March 2007, and station-specific departure melodies replaced the generic Namboku/Mita jingle on 12 March 2015.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Provisionally named "Seishōkō-mae" during planning after the nearby Kakurin-ji temple, the station was renamed only late in the design process by combining the names of the two surrounding districts — Shirokane and Takanawa — which is why no neighbourhood named "Shirokane-takanawa" exists.