Shimo-Ochiai Station
railway station in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
Shimo-Ochiai Station (下落合駅, Shimo-Ochiai-eki) is a railway station on the Seibu Shinjuku Line in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, operated by the private railway operator Seibu Railway.
Lines
Shimo-Ochiai Station is served by the 47.5 km Seibu Shinjuku Line from Seibu-Shinjuku in Tokyo to Hon-Kawagoe in Saitama Prefecture. Located between Takadanobaba and Nakai, it is 3.2 km from the Seibu-Shinjuku terminus.
During the daytime off-peak, the station is served by six trains per hour in either direction.
Station layout
The station consists of two ground-level side platforms serving two tracks.
Platforms
History
The station opened on 16 April 1927.
Station numbering was introduced on all Seibu Railway lines during fiscal 2012, with Shimo-Ochiai Station becoming "SS03".
Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2013, the station was the 64th busiest on the Seibu network with an average of 11,221 passengers daily.
The passenger figures for previous years are as shown below.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Shimo-Ochiai Station” as railway station in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q843464. Authority coordinates are 35.716, 139.696. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1927, 2012 and 2013.
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