History
Kunitachi Station opened on 1 April 1926 between Kokubunji and Tachikawa, taking one kanji from each neighbour's name; the surrounding district was developed as a Hitotsubashi-University-anchored garden suburb by Tsutsumi Yasujirō's Hakone Land company, which built the original red triangular-roof station and transferred it to the Railway Ministry. The line was double-tracked to Kunitachi by 15 October 1928 and electrified through to Tachikawa in 1929. JR East took over at the 1987 nationwide breakup. Elevation works began in June 2003, the down-bound platform shifted to its viaduct on 11 January 2009, the up-bound on 7 November 2010, and the new up-bound main track (Platform 3) was added on 16 December 2012.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
When the elevation works forced removal of Kunitachi's 1926 triangular-roof station building — Tokyo's second-oldest wooden station house after Harajuku — the city of Kunitachi raised the funds itself, dismantling the building in late 2006, storing its parts and finally restoring it on its original footprint as an information centre on 6 April 2020.