Station

Hikifune

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Hikifune
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Timetable information

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Location

History

Hikifune Station opened on 1 April 1902 as an intermediate stop on the Tobu Isesaki Line between Azumabashi (now Tokyo Skytree) and Kita-Senju. The Kameido Line reached it on 5 April 1904, briefly suspending the Azumabashi link until passenger service resumed in 1910 and the station became a junction. The platforms were elevated on 21 February 1967. On 19 March 2003 the line was extended from Hikifune to Oshiage to inaugurate through-running with the Tokyo Metro Hanzōmon and Tōkyū Den-en-toshi lines, making Hikifune the branch point toward Asakusa and Oshiage. Station number TS 04 was assigned in March 2012, and beginning 6 June 2020 limited-express services started calling here.

Notes

The facade of the Tōbu Hikifune Building on the east side of the station gave way in the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, damaging the overhead wires, and the building was later demolished; Tokyo Hikifune Hospital opened on the site on 1 April 2017, after which the station took the subtitle "Tokyo Hikifune Byōin-mae".

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