History
Kitano Station opened on 24 March 1925 as a stop on the Gyokunan Electric Railway in what is now Hachiōji, western Tokyo. It became part of Keio Electric Tramway through a merger on 1 December 1926, briefly fell under the wartime Tokyo Kyūkō (Daitōkyū) consolidation from 31 May 1944, and joined the present Keio operator on 1 June 1948. The Goryō Line branched out from the station on 20 March 1931 but was suspended in 1945; the alignment was later reused for the Takao Line, which opened from Kitano to Takaosanguchi on 1 October 1967. To clear the new National Route 16 bypass, elevation work began in 1983: the downbound line was elevated on 30 September 1989 and the upbound tracks followed on 29 February 1992, and from 22 February 2013 every Keio Line service began calling here.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
The Keio and Takao lines diverge in a flat junction immediately west of Kitano, so arrivals from Takaosanguchi and departures toward Keiō-hachiōji cannot be operated simultaneously.