Ikebukuro

Weekday departures: 1,529/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 791/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 4:25 / 24:31 (00:31 next day)

Busiest hour in the available data: 12:00–13:00 (99)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026 to 3 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: JR Yamanote Line, Akabane Line

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• Yurakucho-Ikebukuro Line: no timetable data
• Marunouchi Line: timetable data withheld pending licensing
• Yurakucho-Ikebukuro Line: timetable data withheld pending licensing
• Tobu Tojo Main Line: timetable covers only part of the line
• Fukutoshin Line: timetable data withheld pending licensing

• JR Yamanote Line: Otsuka ⇄ Mejiro
• Akabane Line: Itabashi
• Tobu Tojo Main Line: Fujimino

Ikebukuro Station opened on 1 April 1903 as a Nippon Railway passenger stop, formed by upgrading the Ikebukuro signal post that had been established on 10 May 1902 to enable the new Yamanote Line branch between Ikebukuro and Tabata. The line was nationalised on 1 November 1906. Tōjō Railway, ancestor of today's Tōbu Tōjō Main Line, opened its adjoining terminus on 1 May 1914, and Musashino Railway — now the Seibu Ikebukuro Line — opened a third station alongside on 15 April 1915, turning the site into a major interchange. Wartime air-raids on 13 April 1945 burnt out the station building and destroyed scores of stranded vehicles in the adjacent depot. The Saikyō Line began running on 30 September 1985, the Shōnan-Shinjuku Line on 1 December 2001, and the underground Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin Line on 14 June 2008 — together producing the four-operator, eight-line super-terminus seen today.

From 1 March 2024 the departure melody on the JR Yamanote Line platforms has been the jingle of electronics retailer Bic Camera, which has its flagship store at the east exit — a change Bic Camera itself proposed to JR — and on 14 November 2025 the platform signs were updated to add the secondary name "Bic Camera-mae".