History
Ōmekaidō Station opened on 6 April 1928 on the Seibu Railway Tamako Line in Ogawachō, Kodaira, Tokyo. The original spelling registered the name as Awome-kaidō rather than the modern Ōme-kaidō. The station is named for the Shinjuku–Ōme Highway (Tokyo Metropolitan Road 5) that crosses the line on the surface immediately outside the entrance. For decades it ran as a single side-platform halt with one track; a refurbished station building was completed and brought into service on 28 February 1995. Although the station had been unstaffed in early-morning and late-evening hours during one period, full-day staffing has since been restored — the roller shutter still fitted at the inner side of the gate remains as evidence of the earlier unstaffed slots.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The Ōme Highway broadens to two lanes each way for a short stretch past the station — a relic of the long-abolished Ogawa-juku post-town that once sat here — and the irrigation channel Ogawa-yōsui still runs in a culvert directly beneath the platform.