History
Bampaku-kinenkōen Station opened on 24 August 2005 as a Metropolitan Intercity Railway Tsukuba Express station in the city of Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, located 51.8 km from the line's starting point at Akihabara. It is station TX18. Its name comes from the nearby Science Expo Memorial Park, built on the site of Expo '85 (the 1985 International Science and Technology Exposition held in what was then Yatabe-machi, Tsukuba District); the planned name during construction was "Shimana," after the local place name. The station has two opposed side platforms on a viaduct, with the entrance and concourse beneath them.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Bampaku-kinenkōen is the only "petition station" on the Tsukuba Express, built at Ibaraki Prefecture's request rather than as part of the original line plan. Outside the east exit stands Tarō Okamoto's sculpture "Looking at the Future," originally made for the 1985 expo and relocated here from the science expo memorial park when the station opened.