History
Ozaku Station opened on 19 November 1894 when the private Ome Railway, later Ome Electric Railway, inaugurated its Tachikawa-to-Ome line for both passengers and freight. The line was nationalised on 1 April 1944 under wartime law and absorbed into the Ome Line. Freight was discontinued on 16 November 1961 and parcel handling on 1 February 1971. Platform-extension work to accommodate ten-car trains was completed on 15 November 1982, and the station was rebuilt as an elevated overhead structure on 1 March 1986. JNR privatisation placed it under JR East on 1 April 1987. Twelve-car running, including Green Cars on Chuo Line through-services, began on 13 October 2024 after associated platform upgrades.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
In February 1952 four freight cars rolled uncontrolled from Ozaku's yard down to Fussa Station and smashed into stabled wagons, an incident that has come to be known as the Ome Incident in Japanese railway accident histories.