Tokyo

Weekday departures: 3,928/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 2,100/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 4:38 / 24:46 (00:46 next day)

Busiest hour in the available data: 8:00–9:00 (269)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 17 April 2026 to 4 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: Tokaido Shinkansen, Tohoku Shinkansen, JR Keiyo Line

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• Marunouchi Line: timetable data withheld pending licensing
• Sobu Main Line: timetable covers only part of the line
• Tokaido Main Line: timetable covers only part of the line
• Tohoku Main Line: timetable covers only part of the line

• Tokaido Shinkansen: Shinagawa
• JR Keiyo Line: Hatchobori (Tokyo)
• Sobu Main Line: Shin-Nihombashi
• Tokaido Main Line: Yurakucho
• Tohoku Shinkansen: Ueno
• Tohoku Main Line: Kanda (Tokyo)

Tokyo Station opened in 1914 as an integrated terminus for the Tōkaidō and Tōhoku main lines — and later the Chūō Line — which had previously had separate termini in Tokyo, the Tōkaidō Main Line's being at Shinbashi. The red-brick Marunouchi building was designed by Tatsuno Kingo and originally rose three storeys; part of the Marunouchi façade still dates from the station's opening. The station was badly damaged in the bombing of Tokyo on 25 May 1945 but soon resumed service. The Tōkaidō Shinkansen, the world's first dedicated high-speed rail system, opened from here to Osaka in 1964, and the extension of the northbound Shinkansen lines from Ueno in 1991 made the station a gateway to northeastern Japan as well.

Tokyo Station is the busiest station in Japan in terms of scheduled trains, with more than 4,000 arrivals and departures every day, and more than 500,000 people use it daily. Its underground passageways reach so far into the surrounding district that Nijūbashimae, Hibiya, Yūrakuchō, Ginza and Higashi-ginza Stations can all be reached from it entirely below ground — the last of these over 2 km away — although the train is usually quicker.