Kita-Senju Station (北千住駅) is a station in Adachi, Tokyo, that opened on 25 December 1896. East Japan Railway Company (JR East) runs the JR platforms, and Tobu Railway, Tokyo Metro and the Metropolitan Intercity Railway Company also serve it; its lines are the Chiyoda Line, Hibiya Line, Jōban Line (Rapid), Jōban Line (Local), TS Tobu Skytree Line and Tsukuba Express (TX).
History
The station opened on 25 December 1896 as a station of the Nippon Railway. A Tobu Railway station opened here on 27 August 1899. On 1 November 1906 Nippon Railway was nationalized. On 12 October 1909 the line came under the Jōban Line.
On 11 December 1936 the Nippori–Matsudo section was electrified with direct current, and local trains became electric trains between Ueno and Matsudo. Most trains then passed through this station without stopping. Three morning up trains were the exception. On 5 July 1940 a down electric train ran into a freight train that was being switched in the station yard. About 70 crew and passengers were injured. On 19 November 1941 a following train ran into a stopped up train in dense fog. Six crew and passengers died, and 41 people were injured. On 1 June 1949 JNR was established.
On 15 January 1962 the elevated station building came into use. On 30 March 1962 Tobu Kita-Senju Station was expanded to 2 platforms with 6 tracks. On 31 May 1962 a station on the Hibiya Line opened, run by the Teito Rapid Transit Authority (Eidan Subway). On 21 July 1965 a freight train and a regular train collided inside the Tobu station. On 20 December 1969 the Chiyoda Line stations opened. On 20 April 1971 through-running began between the Chiyoda Line and the JNR Jōban Line local trains. This separated the subway through-running local trains from the rapid trains. The JNR station became a stop for rapid trains only.
On 8 April 1981 JNR ended freight handling on its lines. On 14 March 1985 JNR ended luggage handling, and all regular trains began to stop at the station. On 28 March 1985 the station building Kita-Senju Wise (now Lumine Kita-Senju) opened. On 1 April 1987 JNR was privatized, and the station became a station of JR East. On 23 December 1990 the platforms of the Tobu Isesaki Line and the Hibiya Line were widened. The up platform became 14 meters wide and the down platform 10 meters wide. In April 1992 improvement work began on the Tobu Isesaki Line and Hibiya Line station. On 28 August 1993 JR East installed automatic ticket gates at its stations and began using them. On 29 February 1996 three escalators linking the 2nd-floor concourse and ticket gates with the platforms on the Asakusa side of the Tobu Isesaki and Hibiya lines came into service. On 23 July 1996 the third-floor platform began to be used as a temporary two-sided, two-track platform. In 1997 a platform for limited express trains only was added on the first-floor down platform of the Tobu Isesaki Line. All paid limited express and express trains began to stop here. On 25 March 1997 the improvement work was completed. The first-floor platforms became two sides and four tracks.
On 18 November 2001 Suica became usable on JR East. On 1 April 2004 the Hibiya and Chiyoda Line stations passed to Tokyo Metro, when the Eidan Subway was privatized. In 2005 the Tsukuba Express stations of the Metropolitan Intercity Railway Company opened. On 18 March 2007 PASMO became usable on Tobu Railway, Tokyo Metro and Tsukuba Express. On 15 March 2008 Odakyu Romancecar direct services began running on the Chiyoda Line. On 14 March 2015 the station became a stop for the Jōban Line Special Rapid, with the opening of the Ueno-Tokyo Line. On 14 December 2017 the in-station shopping facility EQUiA Kita-Senju opened. On 14 March 2021 Tobu Railway began using platform doors on platforms 5 to 7. On 1 February 2022 voice-guided seat ticket machines were introduced, and the Midori-no-Madoguchi ticket counter became a temporary counter. On 26 April 2024 Tokyo Metro ended sales of commuter passes at its ticket counter. On 1 October 2024 the Midori-no-Madoguchi became a permanent ticket counter again.
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