History
Fussa Station opened on 19 November 1894 with the inauguration of the Ōme Railway between Tachikawa and Ōme, handling both passengers and freight from day one. A 1.93-kilometre freight branch toward a riverside loading yard ran from 1927 until 1959. The Ōme Electric Railway was nationalised on 1 April 1944 as a wartime acquisition, and the line was rebuilt with a bridge-over station in November 1986. Operation passed to JR East at privatisation on 1 April 1987. Platform extensions completed in October 2024 allow twelve-car operation on the Ōme Line; rapid trains with double-decker Green Cars began running the following day.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
On 19 February 1952 four runaway freight cars from Ozaku Station rolled all the way to Fussa and rammed wagons standing on a siding here — an incident remembered locally as the "Ōme jiken."