Mikawashima

Weekday departures: 241/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 171/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:16 / 24:29 (00:29 next day)

Busiest hour in the available data: 17:00–18:00 (22)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 3 May 2026.

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:

• JR Joban Line: timetable covers only part of the line

• JR Joban Line: Minami-Senju ⇄ Nippori

Mikawashima Station opened on 1 April 1905 as a Nippon Railway stop in what is now Nishi-Nippori 1-chōme, Arakawa ward. The line was nationalised in 1906 and the section became part of the Jōban Line in 1909. On 3 May 1962 a triple-train collision about 350 metres east of the station — between a freight train, a Toride-bound passenger train and an Ueno-bound passenger train, the latter ploughing into evacuees from the first crash — killed 160 people and injured 296, and is counted as one of the five major post-war accidents on the Japanese National Railways. JR East took over the station on 1 April 1987 at JNR privatisation.

Mikawashima has the lowest daily boardings of any Jōban Rapid Line station in JR East's Tokyo metropolitan area between Ueno and Toride, and the fourth-lowest of any JR East station in Tokyo's 23 special wards, after Echūjima, Kami-Nakazato and Oku.