History
Shimo-Igusa Station opened on 16 April 1927 on the Seibu Shinjuku Line in Suginami, Tokyo. In the late 1960s the original single island platform serving two tracks was rebuilt as two side platforms serving two tracks, and a pedestrian overbridge entered service on 4 October 1970. A renewed station building opened on 3 August 1982. From December 2005 the station was rebuilt under the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism's general station-improvement scheme, with a third-sector company — Shimoigusa Station Improvement Inc. — acting as project sponsor. The current bridge-style building, which doubles as a north-south public passageway, opened on 3 February 2007 along with the photovoltaic array that made this the first Seibu Railway station to generate its own electricity from solar power.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
So many visitors mistakenly alight here thinking it serves the Chihiro Art Museum that the station carries a prominent placard reminding passengers that the museum's nearest stop is actually neighbouring Kami-Igusa.