Timetable information
Weekday departures: 253/day · Sat & holiday departures: 232/day
First / last departure (weekday): 5:02 / 24:52 (00:52 next day)
Busiest hour: 8:00–9:00 (22)
0:00 ─ 23:00
Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.
Timetable data as of 4 July 2026.
Adjacent stations
- Odakyu Odawara Line: Yoyogi-Uehara ⇄ Shimo-Kitazawa
Location
History
Higashi-Kitazawa Station opened on 1 April 1927 on the Odakyū Odawara Line, handling both passenger and freight traffic until freight was discontinued in 1966. Quadruple-tracking between Yoyogi-Uehara and the station was completed on 31 March 1978. On 1 October 2005 the express tracks were taken out of service to enable continuous grade-separation works through Setagaya ward, and the station moved underground on 23 March 2013. A new at-grade station building entered service on 16 May 2015 and was completed on 26 November 2016. The quadruple-tracking project was completed on 3 March 2018, when the express bypass tracks and the permanent platform on the local tracks came into use, and Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line through-services began calling at the station on 17 March 2018.
Notes
The station's name comes from its 1927 location on the eastern edge of the former Shimo-Kitazawa area of Setagaya-machi in Ebara County, meaning "east of Kitazawa."
Sources
- Wikipedia (English) (opens in a new tab)
- Wikipedia (日本語) (opens in a new tab)
- Photo: N509FZ · CC BY-SA 4.0 (opens in a new tab) · Wikimedia Commons (opens in a new tab)
Last updated: 2026-05-18