History
Sengakuji Station opened on 21 June 1968 as the southern terminus of the Toei Subway Line 1 (now the Asakusa Line) extension from Daimon, with the Keikyū Main Line simultaneously extended north from Shinagawa and through-running launched between the two operators. The station became a through stop on 15 November 1968 with the further Asakusa Line extension to Nishi-Magome. PASMO IC cards entered service on 18 March 2007. Platform-edge doors entered service on tracks 3 and 4 on 22 February 2020 and on tracks 1 and 2 on 7 March 2020. From 14 March 2020 the station began offering transfer service to JR East at the new Takanawa Gateway Station roughly 300 metres away.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
In 1993 the nearby Sengaku-ji temple, famous as the burial place of the Forty-seven Rōnin, sued the Tokyo Metropolitan Government to stop the station using its name. The case ran through to the Supreme Court before being finally dismissed in 1997 on grounds of the station name's public-interest function.