Takadanobaba

Weekday departures: 1,145/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 507/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 4:38 / 24:49 (00:49 next day)

Busiest hour in the available data: 13:00–14:00 (80)

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 complete: JR Yamanote Line

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• Seibu Shinjuku Line: no timetable data
• Tokyo Metro Tozai Line: timetable data withheld pending licensing

• JR Yamanote Line: Mejiro ⇄ Shin-Okubo

Takadanobaba Station's Yamanote Line platform opened on 15 September 1910 as a Tetsudō-in (Railway Bureau) station. Seibu Railway built a temporary station perpendicular to the Yamanote Line in April 1927 and moved it to its present parallel position east of the JR tracks in April 1928, with Takadanobaba serving as the Seibu Murayama (now Shinjuku) Line's Tokyo terminus until the extension to Seibu-Shinjuku Station in 1952. The original buildings burned in the April 1945 firebombing of Tokyo. The Teito Rapid Transit Authority's Tōzai Line reached the station on 23 December 1964 and was extended west to Nakano in March 1966. JR East took over from JNR at the April 1987 privatisation, and Tokyo Metro succeeded the TRTA in April 2004.

Since 1 March 2003 the departure melody on the Yamanote Line platform has been the theme from the first Astro Boy series. It was adopted at the request of the Takadanobaba Nishi Shōtengai promotion association, because Tezuka Productions, the studio headed by Osamu Tezuka, is based in Takadanobaba, and because the series places the Ministry of Science, headed by Professor Ochanomizu, in the same district.