Higashi-Nakano

Weekday departures: 1,248/day · Sat & holiday departures: 773/day

First / last train (weekday): 0:18 / 24:57

Busiest hour: 8:00–9:00 (97)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map.

• Oedo Line: Nakai ⇄ Nakano-sakaue
• Chūō Main Line: Nakano (Tokyo) ⇄ Okubo (Tokyo)

Higashi-Nakano opened on 14 June 1906 as Kashiwagi Station on the private Kōbu Railway, accepting passengers via what is now the east exit. The line was nationalised on 1 October 1906 and assigned to the Chūō Higashi Line (Chūō Main Line from 1911) on 12 October 1909. The station was renamed Higashi-Nakano on 1 January 1917, with a west entrance added in a 1928 expansion. A 5 December 1988 rear-end collision at Higashi-Nakano killed two people and accelerated JR's adoption of ATS-P automatic train stop across the Tokyo network. Toei Line 12 (renamed Ōedo Line on 20 April 2000) opened a deep-level platform here on 19 December 1997, 38.8 m underground — Tokyo's second-deepest subway station.

The cherry trees and rape flowers on the embankment northwest of the JR platforms, along the curve toward Mei-dai Nakano High School, are a noted photo spot in spring; JR East's station stamp for Higashi-Nakano takes the cherry-blossom theme from this stretch of track.