Ranked shortlist · 10 of 617 train stations
Best train stations in Tokyo
The 10 most notable train stations in Tokyo, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
JR 新木場駅
新木場1-5
42 m from Shin-Kiba Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.436, percentile 100 of 617
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2
都営浅草線 五反田駅
東五反田1-26-2
25 m from Toei Subway Gotanda Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.435, percentile 99.84 of 617
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3
初台駅 (KO02)
初台1-53-7
33 m from Hatsudai Station, rail
Photo 江戸村のとくぞう · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.433, percentile 99.68 of 617
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4
都営大江戸線 落合南長崎駅
西落合3-1-18
27 m from Ochiai-minami-nagasaki Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.433, percentile 99.51 of 617
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5
西武新宿線 中井駅 (Nakai Sta.)(SS04)
中落合1-19-1
58 m from Nakai Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.432, percentile 99.35 of 617
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6
入谷駅 (Iriya Sta.) (H18)
入谷1-6-4
68 m from Iriya Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.432, percentile 99.19 of 617
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7
大島駅 (Ōjima Sta.) (S15)
大島5-10-8
74 m from Ōjima Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.431, percentile 99.03 of 617
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8
銀座線 神田駅 (G13)
神田須田町1-16
42 m from Tokyo Metro Kanda Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.431, percentile 98.86 of 617
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9
白山駅 (Hakusan Sta.) (I13)
白山5-36-10
48 m from Hakusan Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.431, percentile 98.7 of 617
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10
銀座線 三越前駅 (G12)
日本橋室町2-2-1
191 m from Shin-Nihombashi Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.431, percentile 98.54 of 617
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).