History
Kami-Shakujii Station opened on 16 April 1927 on what became the Seibu Shinjuku Line, the southernmost stop in Nerima Ward, Tokyo. The platform layout was rebuilt from a single island into two islands serving three tracks in the early 1960s, and a bridge-style station building was completed on 7 March 1965. Automatic ticket gates entered service on 1 September 1993, escalators followed at the south entrance around 1995, and barrier-free improvements adding an elevator and renovated restrooms were completed on 13 February 2004. The Seibu Kami-Shakujii rolling-stock depot and a crew base are co-located here, so trains terminate at the station and drivers and conductors often change. Station numbering assigned SS13 in fiscal 2012.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
An elevated rebuild for the 5.1 km Iogi-to-Seibu-Yagisawa stretch of the Shinjuku Line — authorised in March 2024 — is set to expand Kami-Shakujii to two island platforms serving four tracks, restoring its long-shelved passing-line ambitions.