History
Yamada Station opened on 20 March 1931 as a station on the Goryō Line of Keio (then operated by its predecessor) in what is now Midori-chō, Hachiōji, Tokyo. It was absorbed into the wartime Tokyu (Dai-Tokyu) network on 31 May 1944 and was suspended on 21 January 1945 as part of the Goryō Line's wartime-non-essential-line designation. Keio Teito Electric Railway separated from Tokyu on 1 June 1948 and the station became theirs. The Yamada - Tama-Goryō-mae section of the Goryō Line was abolished on 26 November 1964, and Yamada was rebuilt as a Takao Line station on 1 October 1967. It became a Junkyū stop on 22 February 2013 (while still being passed by Express trains), and from 12 March 2022 it became a Limited Express stop after the Junkyū service was discontinued.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The station name comes from the nearby Kōen-ji of Yamada, an old Rinzai-school temple; the station is read "Yamada," while the temple and the surrounding place name are read "Yamata."