History
Higashi-Fushimi opened on 16 April 1927 on what is now the Seibu Shinjuku Line, initially as Kamisaya Station. It was renamed Higashi-Fushimi on 20 November 1929 following the establishment of the Higashi-Fushimi Inari Shrine on land donated by Seibu Railway. On 24 March 1983 the layout was expanded from two-island three-track to two-island four-track and a bridge-style station building opened. Automatic ticket gates entered service on 11 June 1993, and accessibility upgrades were completed on 30 September 2003. A 30 June 2012 timetable reshuffle elevated daytime semi-express services to express, leaving the station served only by all-stops trains during off-peak hours. From 3 February 2026 the ticket office has been switched to remote-interphone operation.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station and its surrounding 7,000-tsubo estate were donated by Seibu Railway to lure Kyoto's Fushimi Inari Shrine into building a Tokyo branch shrine in 1929, and Seibu ran a special train with reserved cars to bring the deities themselves to the inauguration ceremony.