Kanda (Tokyo)

Weekday departures: 3,031/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 1,417/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 4:38 / 24:45 (00:45 next day)

Busiest hour in the available data: 8:00–9:00 (203)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 3 May 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 incomplete:

• Tokyo Metro Ginza Line: timetable data withheld pending licensing
• Chuo Main Line: timetable covers only part of the line
• Tohoku Main Line: timetable covers only part of the line

• Chuo Main Line: Ochanomizu
• Tohoku Main Line: Akihabara ⇄ Tokyo

Kanda Station opened on 1 March 1919, when the Chūō Main Line was extended from the former Manseibashi Station to Tokyo Station under the Railway Bureau (Tetsudōin). On 1 November 1925 the Tōhoku Main Line was extended from Akihabara to Kanda and onward to Tokyo, completing the loop of the Yamanote Line and bringing Keihin-Tōhoku and Yamanote services to the station. The Tokyo Underground Railway (predecessor of the Tokyo Metro Ginza Line) opened a separate subway station on 21 November 1931, closing the temporary terminal at Manseibashi and making Kanda the line's terminus until the extension to Mitsukoshimae on 29 April 1932. With the privatization of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 the JR portion came under JR East, and the Ginza Line portion was inherited by Tokyo Metro on 1 April 2004 after the privatization of the Teito Rapid Transit Authority. Keihin-Tōhoku rapid services began stopping at the station on 14 March 2015, and station numbering was introduced on the JR East platforms in 2016, assigning JC02, JK27 and JY02.

From 2 October 2023, JR East added "Earth Pharmaceutical Head Office Mae" as a sub-name to the JR Kanda Station, and the Yamanote Line platforms now use the jingle from the Mondamin oral hygiene brand commercials as the departure melody — a five-year arrangement scheduled to run through 30 September 2028.