History
Yūtenji Station opened on 28 August 1927 as a stop on the Tōkyū Tōyoko Line, the suburban commuter route running between Shibuya and Yokohama. It sits roughly 3.2 km from the line's Shibuya terminus and has long been served only by all-stops local trains. From 2013 the operator narrowed both platforms so that a single center track could be inserted between the existing up and down lines, allowing limited-express services to overtake locals without stopping; the new passing line entered service with the timetable revision of 25 March 2017. A driveway-style station building beneath the elevated platforms opened to commercial tenants in October 2018.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
When the center passing track opened in 2017, Yūtenji became one of the few Tōkyū Tōyoko Line locals where express trains overtake by passing through the station, not around it.