Tabata (Tokyo)

Known weekday departures: 2,097/day in the available timetable data · Known Sat & holiday departures: 931/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 4:25 / 24:54 (00:54 next day)

Busiest hour in the available data: 11:00–12:00 (145)

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 3 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 complete: JR Yamanote Line

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

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

• JR Yamanote Line: Komagome
• Tohoku 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 freight marshalling yard here received Japan's first hump 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.