History
Kumagawa Station is an unstaffed single-platform stop on the JR East Itsukaichi Line at Kumagawa, Fussa City, Tokyo, with station number JC 81. After the Itsukaichi Railway laid track through the village in April 1925 — over a written undertaking to build a pedestrian tunnel and station — only the tunnel was eventually built (and only after the local village association contributed 2,500 yen in compensation), while the station itself was delayed until 1931. Acquisition of the station site was funded jointly by Tama Silk Mills (200 yen), Kumagawa Silk Mill (50 yen) and surrounding retailers and restaurants. The stop opened as a halt on 28 May 1931 and was promoted to full station status on 30 October 1931. Itsukaichi Railway was absorbed by Nambu Railway on 3 October 1940 and nationalised on 1 April 1944. On 19 November 1962, longer trains forced the station to shift 0.2 km toward Haijima to avoid blocking the Okutama Highway level crossing. The station was inherited by JR East at the 1 April 1987 privatisation, Suica IC card service began on 18 November 2001, and the station became fully unstaffed on 1 April 2015.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-24.
Notes
Tama Silk Mills operated a private light railway between the station and the mill's coal yard until around 1936, used to haul coal in to fire the mill's boilers — an early industrial-spur arrangement linking the station to its biggest local customer.