Tokyo subway timetable
First and last trains on all thirteen lines, how often they run, and the two timetables Japan actually publishes — weekdays, and Saturdays, Sundays and holidays.
First and last trains on each line
| Line | Weekdays | Saturdays, Sundays & holidays |
|---|---|---|
| GGinza Line | 05:01 – 00:28 | 05:01 – 00:28 |
| MMarunouchi Line | 05:00 – 00:28 | 05:00 – 00:28 |
| HHibiya Line | 05:00 – 00:34 | 05:00 – 00:34 |
| TTozai Line | 04:58 – 00:37 | 04:58 – 00:37 |
| CChiyoda Line | 04:38 – 00:48 | 04:38 – 00:48 |
| YYurakucho Line | 05:00 – 00:31 | 05:00 – 00:31 |
| ZHanzomon Line | 05:02 – 00:37 | 05:02 – 00:22 |
| NNamboku Line | 05:00 – 00:36 | 05:00 – 00:36 |
| FFukutoshin Line | 05:00 – 00:29 | 05:00 – 00:29 |
| AAsakusa Line | 05:00 – 00:30 | 05:00 – 00:30 |
| IMita Line | 05:00 – 00:43 | 05:00 – 00:43 |
| SShinjuku Line | 05:00 – 00:27 | 05:00 – 00:27 |
| EOedo Line | 05:00 – 00:57 | 05:00 – 00:57 |
Earliest departure and latest departure anywhere on the line, from the operators’ own GTFS timetables (sample weekday Nov 25, 2026, sample holiday Nov 28, 2026). Each station page gives its own times by line and direction.
Two timetables, not seven
Tokyo publishes exactly two subway timetables. One is 平日, weekdays, Monday to Friday. The other is 土休日, which covers Saturdays, Sundays and national holidays in one. There is no separate Sunday service and no separate Friday service, so any site that shows you seven different days for the Tokyo subway is padding.
A national holiday runs the Saturday timetable even when it falls on a Tuesday — worth knowing in Golden Week in early May and around the holidays in September. The December 30 – January 3 period also runs the holiday timetable. Special timetables for events are not modelled here.
The hours after midnight belong to the service day that started the morning before. A train at 00:40 on Saturday morning is a Friday train and runs to the weekday timetable.
How often the trains run
| Line | Weekday busiest hour | Holiday busiest hour | Gap at 08:00 | Gap at midday |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GGinza Line | 28 trains | 20 trains | 2.2 min | 3 min |
| MMarunouchi Line | 28 trains | 16 trains | 2.2 min | 4 min |
| HHibiya Line | 27 trains | 14 trains | 2.3 min | 5 min |
| TTozai Line | 26 trains | 16 trains | 2.4 min | 5 min |
| CChiyoda Line | 26 trains | 13 trains | 2.4 min | 5 min |
| YYurakucho Line | 22 trains | 12 trains | 2.8 min | 6 min |
| ZHanzomon Line | 27 trains | 15 trains | 2.3 min | 5 min |
| NNamboku Line | 18 trains | 13 trains | 3.4 min | 6 min |
| FFukutoshin Line | 24 trains | 16 trains | 3.6 min | 4.3 min |
| AAsakusa Line | 23 trains | 14 trains | 2.7 min | 5.3 min |
| IMita Line | 20 trains | 12 trains | 3.3 min | 6 min |
| SShinjuku Line | 17 trains | 12 trains | 4 min | 6 min |
| EOedo Line | 20 trains | 13 trains | 3.7 min | 6 min |
Departures in one direction during the hour with the most trains at the busiest station of the line, counted in the operators’ timetable. On the branches and the outer sections the gaps are longer than the figures above.
What a day on the Tokyo subway looks like
The first trains leave between about 04:38 and 05:02, and the last between about 00:27 and 00:57. Between the last train and the first there is no subway service at all — no night lines, no hourly trains, nothing. That is a real constraint on an evening out: the last train from the centre to an outer terminus often leaves before midnight even though a train somewhere on the line runs until nearly 01:00.
Peak service is dense. At 08:00 the busiest lines run a train every two to three minutes in each direction; at midday most settle to five or six. You rarely need a timetable to catch a train — you need it to catch the last one.
Departure times come from the operators’ own GTFS timetables (ODPT GTFS Toei-Train-GTFS (version 20261009, valid 2026-03-14..2027-03-12) + TokyoMetro-Train-GTFS (version 20261008, valid 2026-09-19..2027-03-12)). Japan publishes two subway timetables: 平日 weekdays and 土休日 Saturdays, Sundays and national holidays. There is no separate Sunday timetable, and the December 30 – January 3 period runs the holiday timetable.