History
Hinatawada Station opened on 28 December 1895 as a freight station on the Ōme Railway, when the line first reached the area near present-day Ōme, Tokyo. Passenger service began on 10 March 1898, and the station was relocated to its current site on 1 April 1914. The Ōme Electric Railway was nationalised on 1 April 1944, and the station passed to East Japan Railway Company with the breakup of Japanese National Railways in 1987. Suica IC card service began on 8 February 2002, and the present station building opened on 26 January 2010.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The river-opposite Yoshino-baigō plum grove is one of the Kantō region's noted plum-blossom spots, and the station is reinforced with extra staff during the viewing season.