History
Meidaimae Station opened on 15 April 1913 as Kayakukomae Station on the Keiō Electric Tramway, taking its name from a former Edo-period gunpowder magazine. It was renamed Matsubara in 1917 and acquired its present name on 8 February 1935, the year after the Meiji University preparatory department moved into the neighbourhood. A second set of platforms opened on the Inokashira Line on 1 August 1933, originally branded Nishi-Matsubara, and the two lines have crossed at this interchange ever since. In 1944 wartime mergers folded the line into Tokyu and a 1948 split produced today's Keio Corporation. Station numbering KO06 and IN08 was introduced on 22 February 2013, and a station building called Frente Meidaimae opened on 24 May 2007.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
In February 2001 a 30-kilowatt solar array was installed on the platform roof in cooperation with the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization; the electricity it generates powers the station's lighting.