Station

Minami-Senju

南千住

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Minami-Senju
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Timetable information

Weekday departures: 242/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 / 24:26 (00:26 next day)

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


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:

  • Tsukuba Express: timetable data withheld pending licensing
  • Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line: timetable data withheld pending licensing
  • JR Joban Line: timetable covers only part of the line

Adjacent stations

Location

History

The Jōban Line station at Minami-Senju opened on 25 December 1896 as a stop on the private Nippon Railway. The line was nationalised on 1 November 1906, and the station remained in state hands through the establishment of Japanese National Railways in 1949 until the 1 April 1987 break-up transferred it to JR East. A separate Hibiya Line station, operated by the Teito Rapid Transit Authority, opened on 28 March 1961 with elevated platforms and was inherited by Tokyo Metro at the 2004 privatisation. A third station, serving the Tsukuba Express, opened underground on 24 August 2005; the three operators' stations stand in separate buildings, so changing between them means leaving the gates and crossing a road. Departure-melody playback began on the Hibiya Line platforms on 7 February 2020.

Notes

The area immediately south of the station occupies the site of the Kozukappara execution grounds, in use from about 1650 until 1873, where an estimated 100,000–200,000 people died during the Edo period; part of the former burial ground now lies beneath the Hibiya Line tracks.

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