History
Akishima Station opened on 25 January 1938 as the Showa-mae provisional halt on the Ōme Electric Railway, primarily to carry workers to the adjoining Showa Aircraft Industry plant; the company donated land for the building and contributed to the construction cost. It was upgraded to a full station, Showa-mae, on 25 December 1938. On 1 April 1944 the Ōme Electric Railway was nationalised under the wartime acquisition of private railways, placing the station on the Ministry of Transport and Communications' Ōme Line. On 1 October 1959 it was renamed Akishima after the surrounding city. Freight handling ceased on 1 January 1971, parcel handling followed on 1 February, and the station was rebuilt that March. JR East took over on 1 April 1987 at JNR privatisation, and Suica IC cards have been accepted since 18 November 2001.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
Akishima Station was opened in 1938 to serve workers at the adjoining Showa Aircraft Industry plant, which contributed land and part of the construction cost, and the company's affiliates still own the Mori Town and Showa-no-Mori commercial blocks around the north exit.