History
The station opened on 22 December 1983 as Ōnari Station with the inaugural Ōmiya - Hanuki section of the Saitama New Urban Transit Ina Line (New Shuttle), 1.5 km from the Ōmiya terminus. Suica use began on 18 March 2007, and on 14 October 2007 the station was renamed Tetsudō-Hakubutsukan to coincide with the opening of the adjacent Railway Museum; the rename was paired with major works funded by a 1.3 billion-yen Saitama City budget that widened the platform, added escalators, elevators and an automatic ticket gate, and integrated the station concourse with the museum entrance. "Ōnari" remains as a parenthetical secondary name.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
On IC-card transaction histories the station prints as "鉄道博物" (Tetsudō-Hakubutsu), trimmed to fit Suica's character limit.