Nihombashi Station (日本橋駅) is an underground station in Tokyo. Tokyo Metro and the Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation run it, and it serves the Ginza Line, Tōzai Line and Asakusa Line. It opened on 24 December 1932.
History
Nihombashi Station opened on 24 December 1932 as a stop of the Tokyo Underground Railway, on Nihombashi-dōri in Tokyo. Takashimaya and Shirokiya paid part of the construction cost. On 1 September 1941 the line was transferred to the Teito Rapid Transit Authority (Eidan Subway). On 27 January 1945 an air raid by Allied aircraft damaged a water pipe. Water flooded in, and trains between Nihombashi and Shimbashi were stopped.
On 28 February 1963 the Toei Subway line that later became the Asakusa Line opened Edobashi Station (江戸橋駅). Transfers to the Eidan line began there. On 14 September 1967 the Tōzai Line opened, and Nihombashi and Edobashi became transfer stations.
On 1 July 1971 the station began air conditioning, the first at an Eidan station. On 1 July 1978 the Toei line was renamed the Asakusa Line. On 27 April 1984 the Ginza Line platform for Shibuya was moved to a new platform. On 19 March 1989 Edobashi Station on the Asakusa Line was renamed Nihombashi.
On 1 April 2004 Eidan was privatised, and its Ginza and Tōzai stations passed to Tokyo Metro. On 18 March 2007 the station began accepting the PASMO IC card. On 22 May 2015 a departure melody was added to the Tōzai platform. On 30 August 2018 one was added to the Ginza platform.
The Toei commuter pass counter closed on 29 December 2021. The Tokyo Metro commuter pass counter closed on 21 January 2022.
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