History
Musashi-Yamato Station opened on 23 January 1930 as the Murayama Chosuichi (provisional) terminus of the Tamako Railway Tamako Line, sited 1.3 km closer to Hagiyama than originally planned because of unresolved interaction with the parallel Hakonegasaki line. When the line was extended in December 1936 the provisional station was relocated north of the new Hakonegasaki overbridge and renamed Musashi-Yamato, the "Yamato" coming from the historic Yamato village (now Higashiyamato City). Tamako Railway became part of the Musashino Railway in March 1940 and subsequently of present-day Seibu Railway in September 1945. The station was rebuilt to single platform single track in September 1961, gained an elevator and accessible facilities in March 2011, and was assigned station number ST06 during fiscal 2012.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
Between 1961 and 1996 the platform was just four cars long, so longer Shinjuku Line through-services skipped the station; only after a 1996 extension to eight-car length did the entire Tamako Line schedule begin to stop here.