History
Hatonosu Station opened on 1 July 1944 with the rest of the Ministry of Transport and Communications' Ōme Line extension between Mitake and Hikawa (now Okutama), handling passengers and parcels. Parcel handling ended on 1 February 1971 and the station passed to JR East with the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987. Suica became usable on 8 February 2002, the stop became a simple-commission station on 1 April 2003, then was fully unstaffed from 1 April 2016, with ticket sales and IC-card charging at the vending machine ending on 17 January 2017. On 1 June 2022 the wooden station building reopened as the "Ensen Marugoto Lab" community space. The station retains two opposed ground-level side platforms connected by a footbridge, with level crossings at each end that limit it to four-car trains.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Because level crossings sit immediately at both ends of the platforms, only four-car trains can stop here — a constraint that still shapes scheduling on this stretch of the Ōme Line.