History
Hachiōji Station opened on 11 August 1889 as the western end of the Kōbu Railway's Tachikawa–Hachiōji extension, originally on a site north-east of the present location. The station was relocated about 150 metres west in 1901 as the government railway pushed on toward Uenohara. Kōbu was nationalised in 1906, the Yokohama Line joined the junction in 1908, and the Hachikō Line opened in December 1931. Wartime air raids in August 1945 destroyed the building, with the present fifth-generation station — the Hachiōji NOW department-store complex — opening on 1 November 1983.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Yokohama Line trains briefly ran as the Rail Bureau's "Happin Line" between 1910 and 1917, when the formerly private Yokohama Railway was operated on lease by the government before outright nationalisation.