Chūō–Sōbu Line

• Regularly, trains terminate at Chiba or Tsudanuma at the east side, and terminate at Nakano or Mitaka at the west side
• All trains stop at every station.
  • For station information on the parallel rapid/express lines, see the Chūō Line (Rapid) and Sōbu Line (Rapid) articles.

All through service trains enter the Tōzai Line at either Nakano, or Nishi-Funabashi. These trains operate within the following routes:

• Mitaka – Nakano – (Tōzai Line) – Nishi-Funabashi – Tsudanuma (weekday mornings/evenings only)
• Nakano – (Tōzai Line) – Nishi-Funabashi – Tsudanuma (weekday mornings/evenings only)
• Mitaka – Nakano – (Tōzai Line) – Nishi-Funabashi
• Mitaka – Nakano – (Tōzai Line) – Nishi-Funabashi – (Tōyō Rapid Railway Line) – Tōyō-Katsutadai

Certain limited express and seasonal trains run through, or stop at stations on this line. For information on the Shinjuku Wakashio and the Shinjuku Sazanami that make stops on the Chūō-Sōbu Line at Akihabara, see their respective articles.

At around 9 -10pm, a few westbound trains headed beyond Mitaka onto the Chūō Line (Rapid), with some terminating at Musashi-Koganei, and the others at Tachikawa. The other trains during the hour operated regularly.

At around 4 - 6am and 11pm - 1am, Chūō-Sōbu Line services were divided at Ochanomizu Station, into two sections.

• At the western section (Mitaka – Ochanomizu), Chūō Line (Rapid) trains ran through the Chūō-Sōbu Line tracks between Nakano and Ochanomizu, with services serving between Tokyo and as far as Takao, or even Ōme, which stops at all stations.
• At the eastern section (Ochanomizu – Chiba), local trains operated and terminated at the two ends of the section.

This service pattern last operated on 13 March 2020. To prepare for the eventual installation of platform doors on Chūō-Sōbu Line platforms and the future addition of Green Cars on the Rapid line, Chūō Line Rapid service trains no longer regularly operate on the Chūō-Sōbu Line tracks.^[2]

Legend

• ●: All trains stop
• ■: Some trains pass
• ▲: All trains pass on weekends and holidays
• ｜: All trains pass

Trains used on the line are based at Mitaka Depot.

• E231-0 series 10-car EMUs (yellow stripe) (since February 2000)^[3]
• E231-500 series 10-car EMUs (yellow stripe) (since 1 December 2014)^[4]

Trains run between Mitaka and Tsudanuma (Chūō-Sōbu Line) or Toyo-Katsutadai (Toyo Rapid Line), all via the Tokyo Metro Tozai Line between Nakano and Nishi-Funabashi.

• E231-800 series 10-car EMUs (light blue and blue stripe) (Does not run on the Toyo Rapid Line)

• Tokyo Metro 05 series 10-car EMUs (light blue stripe)
• Tokyo Metro 07 series 10-car EMUs (light blue stripe)
• Tokyo Metro 15000 series 10-car EMUs (light blue stripe)

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  JR East E231-0 series
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  JR East E231-500 series
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  Tokyo Metro 05 series
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  Tokyo Metro 15000 series
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  Tokyo Metro 07 series
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  JR East E231-800 series

• 101 series EMUs (yellow livery) (from 1963 until November 1988)^[3]
• 103 series 10-car EMUs (yellow livery) (from 1979 until March 2001)^[3]
• 201 series 10-car EMUs (yellow livery) (from 1982 until November 2001)^[3]
• 205 series 10-car EMUs (yellow stripe) (from August 1989 until November 2001)^[3]
• 209-500 series 10-car EMUs (yellow stripe) (from December 1998 until 19 April 2019)^{[citation needed]}
• E231-900 series 10-car EMU (yellow stripe) (from 27 March 1999 as 209-950 series, until 25 February 2020)^[5]

• 301 series 10-car EMUs (light blue stripe) (on Tozai Line inter-running services from 1966 until 2003)

• See Chūō Line (Rapid)#Rolling stock for the train types which operated this service until 13 March 2020.

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  A Chūō-Sōbu Line 101 series EMU in August 1978
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  A Chūō-Sōbu Line 201 series EMU in May 2001
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  A Chūō-Sōbu Line 301 series EMU in February 2003
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  A Chūō-Sōbu Line 205 series EMU
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  A Chūō-Sōbu Line 209-500 series EMU in April 2009
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  The sole E231-900 series EMU in June 2019

Rolling stock transitions since 1965

Women-only cars, designed to prevent gropers, were introduced on this line during morning peak periods starting on 20 November 2006.

On 20 August 2016, station numbering was introduced to the Chuo-Sobu line with stations being assigned station numbers between JB01 and JB39.^[6][7] Numbers increase towards in the eastbound direction towards Chiba.

• Chūō-Sōbu Line (Japan Visitor) (in English)