History
Fuchū-Keiba-Seimon-mae Station opened on 29 April 1955 as the terminus of the Keiō Teito Electric Railway (now Keiō Corporation) Keibajō Line. It serves the Tōkyō Racecourse, and its name uses the racecourse's popular designation Fuchū-Keiba rather than the official name to avoid confusion with the former Japanese National Railways Tōkyō-Keibajō-mae Station on the Shimokawara branch of the Chūō Main Line. On 16 January 2025 the station's permanent staff posting was withdrawn; routine response now comes by intercom from Fuchū Station, with attendants posted only when a race meeting or other event is held.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Because the station's weekday traffic is so light, its platforms have been used as filming locations for commercials and television programmes, including the NHK educational show Pythagora Switch and the 2007 film I Just Didn't Do It (Soredemo Boku wa Yatte Inai).