History
Shin-Sakuradai Station opened on 1 October 1983 as the provisional terminus of the Seibu Yūrakuchō Line between Shin-Sakuradai and Kotake-Mukaihara. The Yūrakuchō Line never originally planned an intermediate stop, but persistent construction problems around Nerima Station meant Seibu needed a temporary terminus, with Eidan Yūrakuchō Line trains running one-way into Seibu metals because no other Seibu line yet connected. When the rest of the line opened on 6 December 1994 — initially as single track between Shin-Sakuradai and Nerima — the station became an intermediate stop. Double-tracking on 26 March 1998 enabled through-running to Tokorozawa via the Ikebukuro Line, and Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin Line through-services began on 14 June 2008. The station is in Sakuradai, Nerima, Tokyo, and is numbered SI38.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Shin-Sakuradai is the only underground station that Seibu Railway directly manages — a legacy of the line's tunnel construction having been contracted out to the Eidan subway authority before the rest of the West Ikebukuro extension was finished.