History
Shakujii-kōen Station opened on 15 April 1915 as Shakujii Station, on what is today the Seibu Ikebukuro Line in Nerima Ward, Tokyo. It was renamed Shakujii-kōen on 1 March 1933 after the adjacent Tokyo Metropolitan Shakujii Park. The 14 July 1962 reconfiguration enlarged the layout from one island platform to two islands and three tracks with a connecting footbridge, and platforms were extended for ten-car trains on 1 November 1963. Freight operations ended on 31 March 1978 and a north exit opened later that year. A continuous grade-separation project ran from November 2008 through to 23 June 2012, raising the platforms to the present two-island four-track elevated layout; the Emio Shakujii-kōen retail complex followed on 1 March 2017.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Following the 2012 elevation works the formerly notorious adjacent level crossings — long ranked among Tokyo's most blocked — were removed entirely, with the rebuilt elevated platform supports designed to evoke the trees of Shakujii Park.