Nippori

Weekday departures: 2,394/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 1,180/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 4:29 / 24:51 (00:51 next day)

Busiest hour in the available data: 8:00–9:00 (166)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 28 April 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: Nippori-Toneri Liner

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• Keisei Main Line: only trains from timetables filed under other lines
• JR Joban Line: timetable covers only part of the line
• Tohoku Main Line: timetable covers only part of the line

• Nippori-Toneri Liner: Nishi-nippori
• JR Joban Line: Mikawashima
• Tohoku Main Line: Nishi-nippori ⇄ Uguisudani

Nippori Station opened on 1 April 1905 when Nippon Railway completed the Mikawashima–Nippori section that finalised the current route. The line was nationalised on 1 November 1906 and assigned to the Tōhoku Main Line in 1909. The Keisei Electric Tramway platforms opened on 19 December 1931. On 18 June 1952 the panelling of the wooden south footbridge gave way on the side facing track 10 and passengers fell onto the track into the path of an arriving train, killing eight; in response the cliff below Yanaka Cemetery was cut back and new platforms 11 and 12 opened in 1955. The Nippori-Toneri Liner opened on 30 March 2008, an elevated Keisei platform entered service on 3 October 2009, and the Ecute Nippori retail concourse fully reopened on 15 July 2020.

When the Tohoku Shinkansen tracks were threaded through the station in the 1970s and early 1980s, JNR removed two conventional-line platforms to fit them in: those displaced platforms became gaps in the numbering, which is why Nippori's JR tracks today skip from Platform 4 to Platform 9.