Ueno

Weekday departures: 2,838/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 1,544/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 4:28 / 24:47 (00:47 next day)

Busiest hour in the available data: 13:00–14:00 (184)

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 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: Tohoku Shinkansen

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

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

• Tohoku Shinkansen: Tokyo
• Tohoku Main Line: Oku (Tokyo) ⇄ Uguisudani ⇄ Okachimachi

Ueno Station opened on 28 July 1883 as Nippon Railway's terminus for the Ueno–Kumagaya line, and a permanent brick station building was completed in 1885. Nippon Railway was nationalised in 1906, and in October 1909 the Akihabara–Ueno–Aomori route was designated the Tōhoku Main Line. The first station building burned in the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake, and the present second-generation building was completed in April 1932. Tokyo Underground Railway (now the Tokyo Metro Ginza Line) opened Japan's first subway line, running from Ueno to Asakusa, in December 1927, and the Hibiya Line station opened on 28 March 1961. The Tōhoku Shinkansen reached Ueno in March 1985 and was extended south to Tokyo Station in June 1991, while the Ueno-Tokyo Line through-service to the Tōkaidō Main Line opened in March 2015.

When the foundations of the present second-generation station building were dug after the 1923 earthquake, workers unearthed bones, swords and lances dating from the 1868 Battle of Ueno that had been fought on the temple grounds the railway took over.