History
Ōizumi-gakuen Station opened on 1 November 1924 as Higashi-Ōizumi Station on the Musashino Railway. It was renamed Ōizumi-gakuen on 1 March 1933 after the local academic-town development scheme, and passed through corporate succession to become a Seibu Railway station in 1946. Platforms were lengthened to take ten-car trains on 1 November 1963, freight operations ended on 1 July 1970, and an overpass-style station building entered service on 12 November 1983. From 8 March 2009 the Galaxy Express 999 theme has served as the platform departure melody — a tribute to manga artist Leiji Matsumoto, whose works are associated with the surrounding Nerima neighbourhood. Continuous grade-separation work was finalised on 25 January 2015.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Northern exit Ōizumi Anime Gate, opened April 2015, displays bronze life-size statues of Nerima-born anime characters including Astro Boy, Joe Yabuki from Ashita no Joe, Tetsurō Hoshino and Maetel from Galaxy Express 999, and Lum from Urusei Yatsura.