Tabata (Tokyo)

Weekday departures: 2,091/day · Sat & holiday departures: 928/day

First / last train (weekday): 4:25 / 24:38

Busiest hour: 11:00–12:00 (145)

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

• JR Yamanote Line: Komagome
• Tōhoku Main Line: Kami-Nakazato ⇄ Nishi-nippori

Tabata Station opened on 1 April 1896 on the Nippon Railway line between Ueno and Akabane, originally with freight as well as passenger service. The Tabata-Mikawashima section became a freight-only line after the Nippori-Mikawashima passenger route opened in 1905. Nippon Railway was nationalised in 1906, and the surrounding yard hosted Japan's first hump shunter in 1917. Freight functions were spun off to the new Tabata-sō (now Tabata Signal Yard) in 1961. JR East inherited the station on 1 April 1987 at JNR privatisation, and a major rebuild between 2005 and August 2008 added Atre Vie Tabata above the new north exit.

Platform pillars at Tabata are built from reused rails — visible reminders of the late-Meiji period when the station first opened.