Tokyo subway fares
What a ride costs, why the same distance can cost two different amounts, and the one thing visitors get wrong: Tokyo Metro and Toei are separate companies.
Two companies, two fares
The thirteen subway lines on the map belong to two operators. Nine are Tokyo Metro; four — Asakusa, Mita, Shinjuku and Oedo — are Toei. Each sells its own tickets and charges its own fare by distance.
If your whole trip stays on one operator’s lines, you pay one fare. If it uses a line from each, you pay both, less a connecting discount of ¥70 for an adult. On a short hop that can nearly double the price: two minimum fares of ¥178 become ¥286 instead of ¥356. Nothing on the platform warns you, and the map draws both companies the same way.
Two practical consequences. First: when two routes take about the same time, the one that stays with a single company is cheaper — our route planner says so when that is the case. Second: if you are making several trips a day across both, the Tokyo Subway Ticket, which covers both operators, usually wins.
What a two-operator trip actually costs
| Trip | The two fares | Connecting discount | IC total | Paper ticket |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ginza → Daimon | Tokyo Metro ¥178 + Toei ¥178 | − ¥70 | ¥286 | ¥290 |
| Shibuya → Kuramae | Tokyo Metro ¥178 + Toei ¥220 | − ¥70 | ¥328 | ¥330 |
| Ueno → Nishi-magome | Tokyo Metro ¥178 + Toei ¥272 | − ¥70 | ¥380 | ¥390 |
| Hanzomon → Shin-takashimadaira | Tokyo Metro ¥178 + Toei ¥325 | − ¥70 | ¥433 | ¥440 |
| Ikebukuro → Asakusa | Tokyo Metro ¥178 + Toei ¥178 + Toei ¥178 | − ¥70 | ¥464 | ¥470 |
Worked from the operators’ own distance tables and the published connecting rule; the operators do not publish a combined table, so these are arithmetic, not quotations. The route taken is the one our planner picks.
Tokyo Metro fares
| Distance | Ticket, adult | IC card, adult | Ticket, child | IC card, child |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1-6 km | ¥180 | ¥178 | ¥90 | ¥89 |
| 7-11 km | ¥210 | ¥209 | ¥110 | ¥104 |
| 12-19 km | ¥260 | ¥252 | ¥130 | ¥126 |
| 20-27 km | ¥300 | ¥293 | ¥150 | ¥146 |
| 28-40 km | ¥330 | ¥324 | ¥170 | ¥162 |
In force since March 18, 2023. km (fractions rounded up); ticket fares in 10-yen units, IC in 1-yen units; barrier-free fee (10 yen adult) included Source: the operator’s own regular-fare page.
Toei Subway fares
| Distance | Ticket, adult | IC card, adult | Ticket, child | IC card, child |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1-4 km | ¥180 | ¥178 | ¥90 | ¥89 |
| 5-9 km | ¥220 | ¥220 | ¥110 | ¥110 |
| 10-15 km | ¥280 | ¥272 | ¥140 | ¥136 |
| 16-21 km | ¥330 | ¥325 | ¥170 | ¥162 |
| 22-27 km | ¥380 | ¥377 | ¥190 | ¥188 |
| 28-46 km | ¥430 | ¥430 | ¥220 | ¥215 |
In force since October 1, 2019. km (fractions rounded up; shortest route regardless of the route actually ridden); ticket and credit-card touch payment use 10-yen fares, IC uses 1-yen fares Source: the operator’s own regular-fare page.
Two sections priced differently
| Section | Ticket, adult | IC, adult | Ticket, child | IC, child |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chiyoda Line Ayase - Kita-senju (journeys between these two stations only) | ¥160 | ¥155 | ¥80 | ¥77 |
| Meguro / Shirokanedai / Shirokane-takanawa (track shared by the Namboku and Mita lines), journeys between these three stations | ¥180 | ¥178 | ¥90 | ¥89 |
- Chiyoda Line Ayase – Kita-senju (journeys between these two stations only) No barrier-free fee on this section. Tickets are sold only at Ayase and Kita-senju. Some route combinations with the JR Joban Line use JR fares. The 2026-03-14 date comes from the first archived copy showing 160/155, taken 2026-03-14 13:35, and matches the JR East fare revision of the same day. No Tokyo Metro release with that date could be retrieved.
- Meguro / Shirokanedai / Shirokane-takanawa (track shared by the Namboku and Mita lines), journeys between these three stations Tickets from either operator are valid. The 2019 Toei table had 170/168; it has been 180/178 since 2023-03-18 (barrier-free fee).
Children, and what counts as one
Adult: 12 and over (a 12-year-old still in elementary school pays the child fare)
Child (half fare): 6-11 (a 6-year-old not yet in elementary school counts as a toddler). Child fare = half the adult fare: tickets rounded UP to 10 yen, IC rounded DOWN to 1 yen. On Tokyo Metro the halving happens after the barrier-free fee is added.
Toddler: 1-5 (to elementary-school entry): up to 2 ride free with each paying adult or child; the 3rd and further, or toddlers travelling alone or only with other toddlers, pay the child fare
Infant: Under 1: free
Small print worth knowing
- Paper-ticket and credit-card touch payments use the 10-yen fares; IC cards (Suica/PASMO etc.) use the 1-yen fares (Toei regular-fare page).
- On Tokyo Metro, a transfer between lines through ticket gates must be completed within 60 minutes using the orange transfer gates. Some stations allow transfers without passing through gates (list on the Tokyo Metro regular-ticket page).
- Station pairs with fare 0 in the ODPT/GTFS matrix are Tokyo Metro out-of-station transfer pairs treated as one station (e.g. Ginza <-> Ginza-itchome, Akasaka-mitsuke <-> Nagatacho, Tokyo <-> Otemachi). Same-name pairs with no ODPT record (e.g. Ginza.Ueno <-> Hibiya.Ueno) are the same station.
Frequently asked questions
Every fare on this page comes from the operators’ own published tables — Tokyo Metro’s and Toei’s regular-fare pages and the per-station fare records they publish as open data — and was checked on October 20, 2026. Prices change; the chart above the ticket machines is always the authority. Tokyo Subway is an independent guide: it is not run by Tokyo Metro Co., Ltd. or by the Bureau of Transportation of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government (Toei), and it is not affiliated with either of them.