History
Komae Station opened on 27 May 1927 as a request stop on the Odakyu Odawara Line. The original plan for the line had no station in the centre of Komae village, so residents raised funds to buy the land and donate it to Odakyū in exchange for service, with the station opening two months behind the rest of the route. Throughout the 1990s the station was completely rebuilt as part of the line's quadruple-tracking project: the new elevated building entered use on 27 April 1997, and quadruple-track operation began that 23 June. Station numbering OH16 was added in January 2014, and platform-edge doors entered service on 11 March 2026.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
When the Odakyu line first opened in 1927, the company had no plans to stop here; Komae residents bought the land themselves and donated it so that service would call, opening two months after the rest of the line.