History
Kyōdō Station opened on 1 April 1927 on the Odakyū Odawara Line, on land donated by villagers from a former Fukushō-ji temple plot. Express services began stopping in October 1927 but were pulled in April 1934, and the station's service tier shifted repeatedly through the post-war decades as semi-express, suburban semi-express, and commuter semi-express tiers were added. The up platform was elevated in November 1998 as part of the Odakyū quadruple-tracking project, with the down platform elevated on 11 June 2000, and station number OH11 was introduced in January 2014. From the March 2018 timetable revision the station became an all-stop for the new commuter semi-express service.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
Local villagers paid for the original 1927 station building themselves and physically moved a farmhouse 500 metres to clear the platform site — a fund-raising arrangement essentially unheard of on the rest of the Odawara Line.