History
Hamura Station opened on 19 November 1894 with the inaugural Tachikawa–Ome section of the Ome Railway, which subsequently became the Ome Electric Railway. The company was nationalised on 1 April 1944 under the wartime private-railway acquisition order, placing the station on the Ministry of Communications Ome Line. Freight handling ceased in November 1961 and parcels in February 1971. A bridge-style station building replaced the previous structure on 1 June 1973, with the East Entrance steps reconfigured in 1984. JR East assumed operations at the JNR breakup on 1 April 1987. The new West Entrance building was completed on 3 November 2007. Platform-related work for twelve-car Chuo/Ome through services was finished by 13 October 2024.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
During the annual Hana to Mizu no Matsuri tulip festival, certain Holiday Rapid Okutama express services that would normally pass through Hamura are scheduled to stop here for the duration of the event.