The knifeman was Tasered by police and arrested just before 7.15pm, Scotland Yard said.
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Mire was remanded in custody until Friday when he will appear at the Old Bailey.
Prosecutors allege that the attack was an act of terrorism, and images and flags associated with Islamic State were allegedly found on his phone.
A police officer patrols outside Leytonstone Underground station in London on Sunday where three people were stabbed by a man wielding a knife.
Muhaydin Mire, 29, from east London, is accused of attempting to murder a 56-year-old man at Leytonstone station on Saturday night.
The attack comes after a string of terror arrests and just days after the British Parliament voted to launch airstrikes against ISIS in Syria.
Detectives from Britain s Counter Terrorism Command (CTC) also searched a home in east London in connection with Saturday s attack at Leytonstone station, which left a 56-year-old man with serious knife injuries. In one clip, as police officers wrestled the suspect to the floor, a bystander yelled: “You ain’t no Muslim, bruv”.
Amateur video showed a pool of blood and bloody footprints at the ticket gates of Leytonstone Tube station.
Officers from Waltham Forest borough arrived at the scene within five minutes of the emergency calls and were confronted by a man who was still in possession of a knife.
One man then shouts at the suspect: “You ain’t no Muslim, bruv!”
But the words of a bystander who shouted at the suspect as officers held him down are what have captured public attention.
Police said the stabbing victim was in a stable condition in an east London hospital.
“Let me also pay credit to the person – you can’t quite see who it is – from the film who made that brilliant statement about “You ain’t no Muslim”, Cameron said. The phrase, slang for “brother”, was quickly picked up by Twitter users, who turned it into a trending hashtag. I think the victim was unconscious, he passed out.
British Transport Police said it would deploy more uniformed and plain clothes officers following the incident.
Britain’s official national threat level from worldwide terrorism was raised in August 2014 to severe, the second highest of five levels, meaning an attack is considered highly likely.
London’s transport system was hit in July 2005 by a series of suicide bomb attacks that killed 52 people.
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“Given the sharp spike after Paris in Islamophobic incidences, it is exactly this kind of positive messaging that detaches the Muslim community from extremists and terrorists”.
