Higashi-Nakano

Weekday departures: 1,248/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 773/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 4:26 / 24:57 (00:57 next day)

Busiest hour in the available data: 8:00–9:00 (97)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 28 April 2026 to 4 May 2026: the timetables behind these figures were retrieved on different dates.

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: Oedo Line

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

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

• Oedo Line: Nakai ⇄ Nakano-sakaue
• Chuo Main Line: Nakano (Tokyo) ⇄ Okubo (Tokyo)

Higashi-Nakano opened on 14 June 1906 as Kashiwagi Station on the private Kōbu Railway, accepting passengers via what is now the east exit. The line was nationalised on 1 October 1906 and assigned to the Chūō Higashi Line (Chūō Main Line from 1911) on 12 October 1909. The station was renamed Higashi-Nakano on 1 January 1917, with a west entrance added in a 1928 expansion. A 5 December 1988 rear-end collision at Higashi-Nakano killed two people and accelerated JR's adoption of ATS-P automatic train stop across the Tokyo network. Toei Line 12 (renamed Ōedo Line on 20 April 2000) opened a deep-level platform here on 19 December 1997, 38.8 m underground — Tokyo's second-deepest subway station.

The cherry trees along the track west of the JR station, on the north side towards Mei-dai Nakano High School, and the rape blossom on the embankment below them make this a noted photo spot in spring; JR East's station stamp for Higashi-Nakano takes the cherry-blossom theme from this stretch of track.