History
Higashi-fuchū Station, on the Keiō Line in the city of Fuchū, Tokyo, is operated by Keio Corporation and serves as both an intermediate Keiō Line station and the terminus of the short Keiō Keibajō Line branching off to Tokyo Racecourse. It opened on 12 November 1935 as Rinji Keibajomae Station — literally 'temporary in-front-of-racecourse station' — and was renamed to its present name on 26 October 1940. The station lies 20.4 kilometres from Shinjuku, the Keiō Line's Tokyo terminus, and has one island and one side platform serving four tracks beneath an elevated station building.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station's original 1935 name, Rinji Keibajomae, used the word 'rinji' ('temporary'), reflecting that it was initially built to handle horse-racing crowds for the nearby Tokyo Racecourse.