History
Ryūō Station opened on 15 December 1903 as a general station on the Japanese Government Railways' line between Kōfu and Nirasaki, and in October 1909 became part of the Chūō East Line, later folded into the Chūō Main Line. Baggage handling ended in March 1985, and on 1 April 1987 the breakup of Japanese National Railways placed the station under joint control of JR East and JR Freight. JR Freight inaugurated container traffic on 1 June 1988, and Suica use began with the station's admission to the Tokyo metropolitan area on 16 October 2004. A new bridge station building designed by Tadao Andō opened on 24 March 2008, with the north and south plazas fully opened on 27 March 2010.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Ryūō is the only station on the JR network where regular freight trains originate or terminate in Yamanashi Prefecture; ENEOS petroleum trains run twice daily between Ryūō and Negishi Station.