History
Hakonegasaki Station is an East Japan Railway (JR East) Hachikō Line station in Hakonegasaki, Mizuho, Nishi-Tama District, Tokyo, and is the representative station of Mizuho. It opened on 10 December 1931 when the Japanese government's Hachikō Line was opened between Hachiōji and Higashi-Hannō. Freight handling ended on 1 March 1961, was reinstated 1 July 1970, and ended permanently on 1 February 1984. JR East took over in 1987. The Hachiōji - Komagawa section was electrified on 16 March 1996, Suica became available on 18 November 2001, the elevated station building opened on 9 October 2004, and the Midori no Madoguchi closed on 28 February 2010. Through-services from the Chūō Line were withdrawn on 12 March 2022.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
There are long-standing plans to extend the Tama Toshi Monorail Line to terminate at Hakonegasaki; the elevated 2004 station building was deliberately designed to allow future expansion to a 2-platform/4-track layout in anticipation.