History
Kokuryō Station opened on 15 April 1913 as one of the inaugural stops on the Keiō Electric Tramway's first Sasazuka–Chōfu section, on a site north of Route 20. It was relocated to its present location on 17 December 1927. Wartime consolidation brought it under the Tokyo Express conglomerate in May 1944, and the present Keiō company was carved out at the post-war demerger of June 1948. As part of the Chōfu-area grade-separation project, the tracks and platforms were moved underground on 19 August 2012, replacing the former level-grade layout, and platform doors entered service the following week.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The Chōfu Board of Education marks the 1913 station's original above-ground location with a memorial stele inscribed "Keiō Line Former Kokuryō (Kitaura) Station Site," noting a brief period when the stop was reportedly renamed Kitaura at local insistence.