History
Hino Station is a JR East Chūō Main Line stop in Hino city, Tokyo, 40.8 km from Tokyo and numbered JC 20. It opened on 6 January 1890 as a Kōbu Railway station funded by local donations, with four calls daily in each direction. The line was nationalised on 1 October 1906 and reassigned to the Chūō East (later Chūō Main) Line in 1909. In June 1937 the platform was moved about 300 m north for double-tracking, gaining a folk-style irimoya-roof building meant to harmonise with the surrounding paddy fields. Freight ended in 1959 and parcels in 1964; the station passed to JR East at JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987 and became directly staffed on 16 March 2024.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
A small red-brick footbridge 50 m north of the station, built with bricks from the now-defunct Hino Renga works, has stood since the 1889 Kōbu Railway opening — bricks from the same manufacturer can still be seen in the up-line Tachikawa-side pier of the Tama River bridge.