History
Kumegawa Station opened on 16 April 1927 on Seibu Railway's Shinjuku Line in Higashimurayama, Tokyo. The site was supplied by Tōkyō Tochi Jūtaku, a land company that had launched a 300,000-tsubo subdivision development in the area in 1925 hoping to attract residents, although the buyers were largely investors and the surrounding district remained sparsely populated for years. A new station building entered service on 27 December 1981 after lengthy negotiations among the city, the railway, and disability-rights groups, with the platform layout having earlier been converted from a single island to two opposed side platforms on 1 July 1966. A second-floor north entrance opened in 2010 and an in-station elevator followed in 2013.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
When the surrounding subdivision failed to bring residents, Seibu rebranded the empty land as the "Kumegawa Tent Village" — in 1931 a Boy Scout jamboree drew 2,500 boys from across Japan, and the railway offered campers a 30 percent fare discount.