Timetable information
Known weekday departures: 337/day
First / last known departure (weekday): 5:43 / 23:17
Busiest hour (known departures): 8:00–9:00 (28)
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 28 April 2026 (retrieved in spring/summer 2026).
Weekday figures cover every line at this station. For Saturdays and holidays the timetable data is incomplete for some or all lines, so those figures are departures in the available timetable data, not totals.
Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:
- Toden Arakawa Line: no Saturday, Sunday or holiday timetable
Adjacent stations
- Toden Arakawa Line: Sugamoshinden ⇄ Mukohara
Location
History
Ōtsuka Station (JY 12) is a Yamanote Line station in Minami-Ōtsuka 3-chōme, Toshima, Tokyo, opened on 1 April 1903 on the Nippon Railway's Yamanote Line branch linking Ikebukuro and Tabata (planned under the name Toshima Line) and nationalised on 1 November 1906. The neighbouring Toden Arakawa Line stop Ōtsuka-eki-mae (SA 23) traces back to 20 August 1911, when the Ōji Electric Tramway opened its Ōtsuka stop at the southern end of its line from Asukayama-ue. Freight handling ended on 1 October 1974 and JR East took over the JR side on 1 April 1987; automatic ticket gates came into use at the north exit and then the south exit in 1990, and the station's two ground-level buildings — the south one a rare wooden structure — were demolished in 2009, ahead of the 2013 opening of the commercial complex 'atré vie Ōtsuka'.
Notes
Although the station gives Ōtsuka its name, the area was originally called Sugamo — the locality only became 'Ōtsuka' after the station's 1903 opening, with the 1969 residential-address reform formalising 'Kita-Ōtsuka' and 'Minami-Ōtsuka' to match.
Sources
Last updated: 2026-09-02