Ryōgoku Station (両国駅) is in Sumida, Tokyo. East Japan Railway Company runs it on the Chūō–Sōbu Line (Local), and the Toei Ōedo Line also serves it. It opened on 5 April 1904 as Ryōgokubashi Station (両国橋駅).
History
The station opened on 5 April 1904 as the terminus of the Sōbu Railway, under the name Ryōgokubashi. Tobu Railway trains also ran here through the Kameido Line. Freight handling began on 1 September 1904. The Honjo section was made double track on 19 August 1906. The Sōbu Railway was nationalised on 1 September 1907. Tobu trains stopped running here on 27 March 1910, when Tobu's Asakusa station reopened. The Great Kanto Earthquake burned the station building on 1 September 1923, and service was restored on 9 October 1923.
The present west station building opened on 30 December 1929. The station was renamed Ryōgoku on 1 October 1931. Electric train services to Ochanomizu began on 1 July 1932. The semi-express Inubō began on 10 July 1958. On 20 August 1969, a steam-hauled passenger train left here for Katsuura as the last such train from the Tokyo wards. Parcel delivery stopped on 1 October 1969, and freight handling ended on 1 July 1970.
The Sōbu lines were rebuilt and services were cut back between 1972 and 1991. The Sōbu rapid line started on 15 July 1972, when the Sōbu line was quadrupled and the Tokyo to Kinshichō section opened. On 15 November 1982, the express services to the Bōsō Peninsula were removed, and fewer trains left from this station. On 1 April 1987, the station passed to JR East. On 13 March 1988, the Shiosai and Suigō express services stopped using the station, leaving only the Ayame. The Ayame stopped using the station on 16 March 1991, and from then on only local Sōbu line trains stopped here. On 2 August 1996, the old station building was remodelled as a beer hall called Biya Station Ryōgoku.
Transit links and buildings were updated from 1998. In 1998, the station was selected for the Kanto Stations list, for its two-storey reinforced concrete station building and its ties to sumo. The Ōedo Line station opened on 12 December 2000. Suica became usable at JR East on 18 November 2001, and PASMO at Toei on 18 March 2007. The third platform was renovated on 29 November 2008. Newspaper trains stopped using the station on 12 March 2010, and no regular trains have stopped at the third platform since then.
Recent changes were mainly to shops and services. The old station building was remodelled again as the complex Ryōgoku Edo Noren on 25 November 2016. A cycle train called BOSO BICYCLE BASE began on 6 January 2018, with a direct walkway to the third platform for cyclists. The Ōedo Line station was given the sub-name Kokugikan for a limited time in 2020 for the Tokyo Olympics. The Midori no Madoguchi counter closed on 31 January 2021. On 1 March 2021, the east exit became unmanned all day after a remote-support system was installed. Smart platform doors started on 20 July 2025, and Eki-net Q-Ticket began on 1 October 2025.
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