History
Shimo-kitazawa Station is the interchange between the Odakyu Odawara Line and the Keio Inokashira Line in Setagaya, Tokyo. The Odakyu section opened on 1 April 1927, and the Inokashira-line section followed on 1 August 1933 as a Teito Electric Railway stop. Both came under Tokyu Corporation during the wartime consolidation, before splitting back to Odakyu and Keio Teito Electric Railway in 1948. The Odakyu lines were placed underground on 23 March 2013 as part of a continuous grade-separation and quadruple-tracking project; the upper through tracks entered service for local trains on 3 March 2018. Until 16 March 2019 a single ticket gate served both railways, a legacy of the Inokashira Line's prior Odakyu ownership.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Until the 16 March 2019 ticket-gate separation, Odakyu and Keio operated through a single shared gate at Shimo-kitazawa — a legacy of the Inokashira Line's earlier Odakyu ownership.