Tokyo subway route planner
Between any two of the 216 stations, on either timetable, at any time: which trains, when they leave, when you arrive — and what it costs, including when the trip crosses from one company to the other.
Times after midnight belong to the night before: 00:30 on Saturday is the end of Friday’s service. A national holiday runs the Saturday and Sunday timetable, so pick that option if you are travelling on one.
How the planner works — and what it cannot do
Pick the two stations, the timetable and a time. The planner reads the operators’ own departure times for the station you start from, takes the next train that actually stops where you are going, and gives you the departure and the arrival. Express and rapid trains that skip stations are in the data, so it will put you on a fast train and change you to a local where that is quicker.
It allows 5 minutes for a transfer inside a station and 8 for one between Tokyo Metro and Toei, where you usually pass through fare gates. Both are our estimates: neither operator publishes transfer walking times, and at a place the size of Otemachi or Shinjuku the real walk can be longer. Where the operators link two differently named stations as an official transfer, the planner uses that too and tells you it is a walk.
It shows the fare from the operators’ own per-station tables, and when a trip uses both companies it shows the two fares and the connecting discount separately, because that is the number people get wrong. If a route that stays with one company is cheaper and not much slower, it says so.
What it will not do: it does not route you onto JR, Keisei, Keikyu or any other railway, even where subway trains run through onto them — those are other companies with other fares, and we will not quote a price we cannot source. It knows the timetable, not live running: delays and short-notice changes are not in it. And there is no night service to plan, because the Tokyo subway closes every night.