History
Kami-Kitazawa Station opened on 15 April 1913 as a stop on the Keiō Electric Tramway, named for the former Kitazawa village area on the western side of Edo. It was renamed Kitazawa Station in 1917, and reverted to Kami-Kitazawa on 10 December 1932 to avoid confusion with the Odakyū Shimo-Kitazawa Station that had opened nearby in 1927. Wartime mergers folded the line into Tokyu in May 1944, and the present Keio Corporation emerged with the post-war split on 1 June 1948. An underground station building was completed in February 1993 to replace the original level-crossing access, ten-car platforms were finished in March 1994, and continuous grade-separation works began on 28 February 2014.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Kami-Kitazawa lies only 600 metres east of Hachimanyama Station, close enough that passengers waiting on the Kami-Kitazawa platform can see the elevated Hachimanyama platform.