Akabane

Weekday departures: 1,550/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 838/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 4:42 / 24:47 (00:47 next day)

Busiest hour in the available data: 8:00–9:00 (110)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.

Timetable data as of 3 May 2026.

The timetable data is incomplete for some or all lines at this station, so the weekday and Sat & holiday figures are departures in the available timetable data, not totals.

Lines where the timetable data is complete: Akabane Line

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• Tohoku Main Line: timetable covers only part of the line

• Akabane Line: Jujo (Tokyo · JR East)
• Tohoku Main Line: Kawaguchi ⇄ Kita-Akabane ⇄ Higashi-Jujo ⇄ Oku (Tokyo)

Akabane Station opened on 1 March 1885 as a Nippon Railway ground-level station, serving as the junction where the Shinagawa Line — predecessor of today's Yamanote Line — branched off toward Shinagawa. It was nationalised on 1 November 1906 and assigned to the Tōhoku Main Line under the 1909 line-naming system. From 1978 onward construction for the Tōhoku Shinkansen forced the station's freight line to be reduced to single track, and an elevation and grade-separation project begun in 1990 and running some eight years progressively lifted the entire station onto viaducts. The work was completed in April 1998, finally eliminating the local akazu no fumikiri — "crossings that never open" — that had chronically disrupted the surrounding streets.

In April 1973, frustration with a JNR work-to-rule action that snarled rush-hour trains triggered the "Capital Region National Rail Riots", which began at Akabane and spread to Ueno and Shinjuku, paralysing JNR lines across the Tokyo region for two days.