History
Hitotsubashi-Gakuen Station opened on 6 April 1928 on the Seibu Tamako Line between Kodaira and Kokubunji via Hagiyama, though the present station is actually the consolidated successor of two earlier stops. Kodaira-Gakuen Station opened in 1928, followed in 1933 by Shōdai-Yokamae Station (renamed Hitotsubashi-Daigaku in 1949), which sat roughly 300 metres apart on the same single-track branch. After more than a decade of debate over capacity expansion, Seibu Railway merged the two stops on 1 July 1966 at the present site, coining the composite name. Station numbering was introduced across the Seibu network in fiscal 2012, with the stop designated ST02.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station name was coined from the two predecessor stops it replaced; despite implying a school, there is no "Hitotsubashi-Gakuen" institution.