History
Chōfu Station opened on 15 April 1913 when the Keiō Electric Tramway inaugurated its first section between Sasazuka and Chōfu. The Sagamihara branch line opened from here on 1 June 1916 as the spur to Tamagawara, today's Keiō Tamagawa Station. The platforms were moved to the present site on 10 December 1953, and on 19 August 2012 the line was relocated underground through a grade-separation project that eliminated several busy level crossings. Platform-edge doors entered service on 1 September 2012, and the TRIE Keiō Chōfu retail complex above the station opened on 29 September 2017.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Before the August 2012 cutover to the underground alignment, trains arriving from the Sagamihara Line would block both Keiō Line tracks as they entered Chōfu — one of the chief motivations for the grade-separation project.