History
Fuchū Station opened on 31 October 1916 as a stop on the Keiō Electric Tramway. After the Tamanan Electric Railway opened in 1925 and was absorbed by Keiō the following year, through-running between Shinjuku and the Hachiōji area began on 22 May 1928. The station passed to the wartime conglomerate Tokyu (the so-called Dai-Tokyu) on 31 May 1944, and to the newly formed Keiō Teito Electric Railway on 1 June 1948 when Tokyu was broken up. Continuous grade-separation works began on 16 October 1981; the down line was elevated on 14 October 1989, the up line on 27 April 1991, and the new elevated station building entered service on 1 March 1993. The Keiō Fuchū Shopping Centre (later "Plarito Keio Fuchu") opened on 20 March 1996, and the station was selected as one of the Kantō Station 100 on 14 October 1998. Keiō Liner reserved-seat services started in the down direction on 22 February 2018 and the up direction one year later.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-24.
Notes
Fuchū is one of the busiest non-junction stations on the Keiō network and was selected for the Kantō Station 100 with the citation "a station that evokes a modern, urban museum." Since 24 April 2013 the boarding melodies have been "Bun-bun-bun" (whose lyrics were written by Fuchū-born poet Shirō Murano) on tracks 1 and 2, and the local folk song "Fuchū Kouta" on tracks 3 and 4. The Keiō Line route diverges around Fuchū from the historic Tama River route, and the elevated three-storey station ties directly into the Sky-Nard pedestrian deck linking it to the Mussashi Fuchu Le Signe complex, Forest-Side Building, and Kururu.