History
Yoyogi-Hachiman Station opened on 1 April 1927 on the Odakyū Odawara Line as a stop served only by local trains. It survived the air raid of 20 May 1945 thanks to firefighting by neighbourhood residents and Shimo-Kitazawa staff. Between October 1972 and March 1978 limited transfer-via-rapid service connected it to the Chiyoda Line's Yoyogi-kōen Station, until the Chiyoda Line's extension to Yoyogi-Uehara superseded that arrangement. Station numbering arrived in January 2014, and a major rebuild ran from 2015 to 2019: the new overhead concourse and ten-car-length island platform opened on 16 March 2019, and a west connector to Yamate-dōri followed on 30 November 2019.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Local residents helped firefighters save the station from the May 1945 air raid, a rescue credited in the station's official history.