Yotsuya Station (四ツ谷駅) is in Shinjuku, Tokyo. East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and Tokyo Metro run it. The Marunouchi Line, Namboku Line, Chuo Line (Rapid) and Chuo-Sobu Line (Local) serve it. It opened on 9 October 1894.
History
Yotsuya Station (四ツ谷駅) opened on 9 October 1894 as a passenger-only stop of the Kobu Railway (甲武鉄道). It opened with the Shinjuku to Ushigome section. On 1 October 1906, the Kobu Railway was nationalised, and the station became a government railway station. On 12 October 1909, track naming put the station on the Chuo East Line. Later this became the Chuo Main Line. On 17 July 1947, an imperial train, an electric train, arrived and left the station during a visit by Emperor Showa. On 1 June 1949, the Japanese National Railways was established.
On 15 March 1959, the Teito Rapid Transit Authority (Eidan) opened its Marunouchi Line station here. On 1 February 1984, parcel handling ended. On 1 April 1987, the national railway was split up, and the station became a JR East station. On 28 September 1990, the station building Atre Yotsuya opened. On 10 November 1990, automatic gates were installed at the Akasaka exit. On 8 December 1990, automatic gates were installed at the Yotsuya and Kojimachi exits.
On 26 March 1996, the Namboku Line opened between this station and Komagome. On 30 September 1997, the Namboku Line opened between this station and Tameike-Sanno, making Yotsuya a midway station on the line. In 1999, female station staff began night shifts for the first time at Eidan, the same time as Ikebukuro and Korakuen stations. On 18 November 2001, JR East began accepting the Suica IC card. On 1 April 2004, the Marunouchi and Namboku Line stations became part of Tokyo Metro. On 18 March 2007, Tokyo Metro began accepting PASMO. On 18 May 2007, platform doors began operating on the Marunouchi Line.
On 23 June 2010, Yotsuya got a woman as station master, the first woman to hold that post in Tokyo across the national railway and JR. In March 2012, the Atre Yotsuya station building was renovated. On 13 March 2015, the Namboku Line platform melody was changed. On 16 March 2019, the timetable change made the limited express Kaiji (かいじ) pass through without stopping. It was the only limited express that had stopped here, so no limited express stopped here after that. In autumn 2020, JR East opened the STATION BOOTH shared office inside the station. On 28 February 2021, the Midori no Madoguchi ticket window closed. On 1 March 2021, a reserved-seat ticket machine with voice guidance was introduced. On 26 March 2021, solar power systems were installed on Marunouchi Line stations.
On 1 October 2025, JR East began the eki-net Q Ticket (えきねっとQチケ) service. On 6 March 2026, slit-frame platform doors came into use on the Chuo-Sobu Line local platforms 3 and 4.
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