Mikawashima

Weekday departures: 241/day · Sat & holiday departures: 171/day

First / last train (weekday): 5:16 / 24:29

Busiest hour: 17:00–18:00 (22)

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• JR Joban Line: Minami-Senju ⇄ Nippori

Mikawashima Station opened on 1 April 1905 as a Nippon Railway stop in what is now Nishi-Nippori 1-chōme, Arakawa ward. The line was nationalised in 1906 and the section became part of the Jōban Line in 1909. On 3 May 1962 a triple-train collision about 350 metres east of the station — between a freight train, a Toride-bound passenger train and an Ueno-bound passenger train, the latter ploughing into evacuees from the first crash — killed 160 people and injured 296, the worst rail disaster on Japanese soil to that date. JR East took over the station on 1 April 1987 at JNR privatisation.

Mikawashima has the lowest daily ridership of any Jōban Rapid Line stop in JR East's Greater Tokyo network between Ueno and Toride, and is the fourth-lowest among all stations within the 23 special wards.