History
Kaneko Station opened on 10 December 1931 in what was then Kaneko village, today part of Iruma, Saitama, with the JNR Hachikō Line opening between Hachiōji and Higashi-Hannō. Freight handling ceased on 1 March 1961 and parcel handling on 1 February 1984. The station passed to JR East at privatisation on 1 April 1987. The southern Hachikō Line was electrified on 16 March 1996, with through services to Kawagoe commencing the same day. From September 2014 the original wooden building was replaced by a temporary structure during reconstruction, and the new building entered service on 8 February 2015; elevator and accessible-toilet works followed in March 2017.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The 2015 station building was designed with a wood-grain louvered façade to evoke the original wooden depot, and is the only JR station in Iruma City; the southern side of the platforms overlooks the tea fields that produce Sayama tea, one of Japan's three great green teas.