History
Kori Station opened on 1 July 1944, the same day the Ministry of Transport and Communications completed the Ōme Line between Mitake and Hikawa (now Okutama), handling both passenger and freight traffic. Parcel handling ended on 1 February 1971 and scheduled freight was abolished on 1 November 1986. The station passed to JR East with the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987. Suica became usable from 8 February 2002, the present south-side station building opened on 10 February 2003 and the north-side building on 1 March 2003, and from 1 April 2003 the station operated as a simple-commission stop. It became fully unstaffed on 1 April 2016, and on 19 January 2017 ticket sales and IC-card charging at the vending machine ended.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Kori is the northernmost railway station in Tokyo Metropolis.