Nakano (Tokyo)

Weekday departures: 1,695/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 852/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 4:24 / 24:43 (00:43 next day)

Busiest hour in the available data: 8:00–9:00 (120)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 4 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:

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

• Chuo Main Line: Higashi-Nakano ⇄ Koenji

The Kōbu Railway's Shinjuku–Tachikawa section opened on 11 April 1889 with Nakano as one of its stations, handling both passengers and freight. The railway was nationalized in 1906, becoming part of what was later named the Chūō Main Line, and in 1929 the station moved to its present site. The Teito Rapid Transit Authority's Tōzai Line began running from Nakano on 16 March 1966, originating there as station T01; it passed to Tokyo Metro in the 2004 privatization. Today Nakano is an elevated station with four island platforms and eight tracks, served by the JR East Chūō Line (Rapid), Chūō–Sōbu Line, and Tokyo Metro Tōzai Line, the last two through-running and sharing platforms, so transfers need no intermediate gate.

Nakano Station was originally planned to open at the site of what is now Nakano-sakaue Station, and its first building stood about 100 meters west of today's station building.