History
Musashi-Koganei Station was opened by the Ministry of Railways on 4 April 1924 as the provisional Musashi-Koganei boarding halt, set up to handle visitors to the Koganei cherry-blossom viewing season. It was upgraded to a full passenger station on 15 January 1926. A depot, Musashi-Koganei Densha-ku, was established on the south side of the platforms on 1 September 1959 (and later reclassified as a sub-shed of Toyoda Centre in 2007). The station passed to JR East at the 1 April 1987 privatisation and accepted Suica IC cards from 18 November 2001. A temporary station building entered service on 22 September 2002 to allow elevation works; the down line was lifted onto viaduct on 1 July 2007 and the up line on 6 December 2009, with a fourth platform face on the up side opening on 20 May 2012. The "Musashi" prefix in the name disambiguates the station from JNR's existing Koganei Station in Tochigi and from the Tama Railway's Shin-Koganei. The station number is JC 15.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Since 1 April 2006 — the station's 80th anniversary — the departure melody has been an arrangement of the traditional song "Sakura Sakura", a nod to the historic Koganei Sakura cherry trees planted along the Tamagawa Aqueduct in the Edo period.