History
Meguro Station opened on 16 March 1885 on the Nippon Railway's Shinagawa Line, the predecessor of today's Yamanote Line. Tokyu Corporation's Meguro–Kamata Electric Railway joined the site on 11 March 1923, and after several rebuilds the Tokyu platforms moved underground on 27 July 1997. With the opening of the through service to the new Tokyo Metro Namboku Line and Toei Mita Line subways on 26 September 2000, the line's name changed from the Meguro-Kamata Line to today's Tokyu Meguro Line. The JR platforms received their first half-height platform-edge doors on 28 August 2010, and station numbering was rolled out across JR East starting at this station in 2016.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Although named after Meguro Ward, the station has always stood in neighbouring Shinagawa Ward — both wards now hold rival "Meguro Pacific-saury Festivals" on different days, riffing on the famous rakugo tale.