History
Kabe Station opened on 20 February 1927 as a stop on the Ōme Railway (later Ōme Electric Railway), serving both passengers and freight in what is now Kabe-chō, Ōme, Tokyo. On 1 April 1944 the Ōme Electric Railway was nationalised under wartime acquisition legislation and the station became part of the Ministry of Transport and Communications' Ōme Line. An elevated station building was completed on 1 December 1972, freight handling ended in January 1980, and parcel handling ceased in February 1984. The station passed to JR East at the 1987 privatisation, accepted Suica from November 2001, and on 18 March 2023 opened a new Track 3 platform built on a former siding to accommodate twelve-car formations introduced ahead of Green Car service on the Chūō and Ōme lines.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The Kabe Town Building directly opposite the north exit houses the Ōme City Central Library, which opened in March 2008, alongside anchor tenants including an Aeon Style supermarket and the Kabe Onsen "Ume-no-yu" hot-spring bathhouse.