History
Mejirodai Station opened on 1 October 1967 together with the rest of Keio's new Takao Line through the Hachiōji hills west of Tokyo. The station was planned as the focal point of the Mejirodai housing development laid out along the line and was provisionally called Hachiōjidai during construction. Waiting rooms were added to platform 2 around 1990 and platform 1 around 2000, and the station building was refurbished in 1994 with new escalators, repainted exterior cladding and remodelled toilets. From the 27 March 2001 timetable revision Semi Special Express services began calling here, a stop the trains kept after the category was folded into the regular Special Express on 12 March 2022.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station once had two island platforms and four tracks for overtaking, but the centre passing tracks were ripped out during platform-lengthening work to handle longer trains; part of the freed-up space was reused for an underground bicycle parking lot.