Abstract: Large-scale metro shaking table test is designed and conducted. The dynamic soil pressure and relation between pressure peak value and seismic peak acceleration on metro station side wall under different seismic excitation is studied. The station structure movement mode under seismic action is discussed, as well as influence of soil-structure relative correlation on dynamic soil pressure. Test result and conventional Mononobe-Okabe (referred to as ′M-O′) dynamic soil pressure theory calculation result are compared and analyzed. Results show that residual soil pressure exists under strong earthquakes, which is believed to be caused by soil entering plasticity. The dynamic soil pressure peak value is found the biggest on the top-bottom slab of side wall, the pressure on mid slab is second to it, and that between floors smallest. Positive correlation exists between station side wall dynamic soil pressure and soil acceleration peak value. M-O method cannot accurately predict the test results. But passive and active M-O dynamic soil pressure can be used to evaluate the upper and lower limits of actual dynamic soil pressure.