Ochanomizu Station (御茶ノ水駅) is in Chiyoda and Bunkyo, Tokyo. East Japan Railway Company runs the Chūō Line (Rapid) and Chūō–Sōbu Line (Local), and Tokyo Metro runs the Marunouchi Line. It opened on 31 December 1904.
History
The Kōbu Railway opened the station on 31 December 1904, on the Shinjuku side of Ochanomizu bridge, for passengers only. The railway was nationalised on 1 October 1906. The Shōheibashi to Ochanomizu section opened on 19 April 1908. The station was assigned to the Chūō line on 12 October 1908 and then to the Chūō East Line on 12 October 1909. The Great Kanto Earthquake partly burned the old station building on 1 September 1923. The station was temporarily repaired and kept in use. Cliffs around Ochanomizu were damaged in the quake.
A new station was built on its present site on 1 July 1932. Its design by Ito Shigeru used modernist features. The Sōbu main line was linked here from Ryōgoku the same day. On 15 September 1933, the Ochanomizu to Iidabashi section was made quadruple track, and Chūō express trains, now the Chūō Rapid, began to run. Japanese National Railways was formed on 1 June 1949. Ikebukuro to Ochanomizu opened on 20 January 1954, and the Marunouchi Line station opened with it. Luggage handling ended on 1 May 1960. On 16 July 1968, a rear-end collision happened on platform one late in the evening. On 15 July 1972, the Sōbu rapid line started, and the station became the end of the Sōbu branch.
Gates and access changed between 1978 and 1992. The Hijiri-bashi exit building was rebuilt as a two-storey steel frame building in January 1978. The station passed to JR East on 1 April 1987. Automatic ticket gates were installed at the Ochanomizu-bashi exit on 22 August 1991, at the temporary exit on 27 October 1992, and at the Hijiri-bashi exit on 3 December 1992. On 4 November 1993, the Tokyo Metro commuter pass office closed because it moved into Tokyo Station, and a continuous pass machine replaced it. In 1999, the station was selected for the Kantō Stations list, for its view of the Hijiri bridge and the Kanda River from the platform.
Suica became usable at JR East on 18 November 2001, and Tokyo Metro privatisation took effect on 1 April 2004. PASMO became usable at Tokyo Metro on 18 March 2007. Lifts and escalators between the concourse and the platforms began to be used on 29 January 2019. On 14 March 2020, the Chūō–Sōbu Local line began running through the station all day, so most trains that once turned back here no longer did. A new Hijiri-bashi station building opened on 3 December 2023, with the Eki-Cute Edition Ochanomizu shopping area. The Hijiri-bashi station plaza was fully in use on 31 March 2025.
Recent changes covered platform doors and ticketing. Platform doors started on platforms two and three on 26 September 2024. Eki-Cute Edition was fully opened on 14 May 2025. Eki-net Q-Ticket service began on 1 October 2025. Slit-frame platform doors are planned for platforms one and four in 2026.
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