Hirai (Tokyo)

Known weekday departures: 829/day in the available timetable data · Known Sat & holiday departures: 411/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 4:42 / 24:39 (00:39 next day)

Busiest hour in the available data: 8:00–9:00 (58)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are the departures known from the timetable data, not a count of today's actual service.

Timetable data as of 4 May 2026 (retrieved in spring/summer 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 incomplete:

• Sobu Main Line: timetable covers only part of the line

• Sobu Main Line: Shin-Koiwa ⇄ Kameido

Hirai Station opened on 28 April 1899 as a Sōbu Railway stop in the Hirai neighbourhood of present-day Edogawa, Tokyo. The line was nationalised on 1 September 1907 under the Railway Nationalisation Act and the station passed to the Imperial Railway Agency. The original buildings burned to the ground in the firebombing of Tokyo on 10 March 1945. With the breakup of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 the station came under JR East. Suica service started on 18 November 2001, the staffed Midori no Madoguchi ticket office closed on 25 February 2013, and operations were outsourced on 1 March 2017. A "Chapeau Loco Hirai" shopping facility opened beside the elevated tracks on 20 March 2018.

Although Hirai sits on an elevated viaduct, the surrounding neighbourhood lies in a subsidence zone roughly two metres below sea level, sandwiched between the old Naka River and the Ara River.