History
Kita-Fuchū Station is a JR East Musashino Line stop in Fuchū city, Tokyo, 1.7 km from the Fuchū-Hommachi terminus and numbered JM 34. Its origins lie in the Tokyo Gravel Railway, a freight branch from Kokubunji opened in 1910; that became the Chūō Main Line's Shimogawara freight branch in 1920. After wartime worker shuttles ran here without formal status, a provisional halt at Fujimi opened on 21 January 1949, was downgraded to a signal box in 1952, then re-promoted to Kita-Fuchū Station on 1 September 1956. The Shimogawara branch was absorbed into the Musashino Line on 1 April 1973, freight ceased in 1982, and the station passed to JR East at JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Sidings west of the station run into the adjacent Toshiba Fuchū plant, where finished electric locomotives are commissioned and shipped out — EF65 locomotives held there for component testing are frequently visible from passing Musashino Line trains.