History
Ushihama Station was first set up as a Ushihama provisional halt on the Ōme Electric Railway on 1 March 1943, established at military request to serve the army aerodrome at what is now Yokota Air Base. Its original "platform" was a 70-metre stack of squared timbers next to the Ushihama level crossing. The Ōme Electric Railway was nationalised on 1 April 1944, and a wartime-austerity station building was put up at that point. A third bridge-over station building opened on 28 March 1961 when the Haijima-Fussa section was doubled. JR East took over at JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987, and a barrier-free fourth-generation station opened in March 2013.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
When the station first opened in 1943 as a wartime provisional halt, only military personnel with monthly commuter passes were allowed to use it.