Nishi-nippori

Weekday departures: 2,386/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 1,202/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 4:27 / 24:52 (00:52 next day)

Busiest hour in the available data: 8:00–9:00 (161)

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:

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

• Nippori-Toneri Liner: Akado-shogakkomae ⇄ Nippori
• Tohoku Main Line: Tabata (Tokyo) ⇄ Nippori

Nishi-Nippori Station opened on 20 December 1969 as part of the Teito Rapid Transit Authority's Chiyoda Line. Only the northern half of the platform — closer to Kita-Senju — was usable at the start because Japanese National Railways had not yet finished improvement work on its overbridge above, and trains ran in three-car formations. The full station opened on 20 March 1971 with the Chiyoda Line's extension between Ōtemachi and Kasumigaseki, and a month later, on 20 April, JNR opened its own Nishi-Nippori Station as an interchange — the second-most-recent Yamanote Line station after Takanawa Gateway. The JNR station passed to JR East at privatisation on 1 April 1987 and accepted Suica from 18 November 2001. The Eidan subway was privatised into Tokyo Metro on 1 April 2004, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation (Toei) opened its Nippori-Toneri Liner station on 30 March 2008.

From 1934 to 1943 the present-day Nishi-Nippori 5-chōme block was served by Dōkanyama-dōri Station on the Keisei Electric Tramway's main line. The station — not the line, which still runs past the site — was suspended in 1943 as a wartime non-essential station and later abolished, leaving the immediate area without a rail station for 26 years, until the Chiyoda Line opened.