History
Hachiōji-Minamino Station opened on 1 April 1997 as the youngest stop on JR East's Yokohama Line, sitting roughly 4.0 km from the line's northern terminus at Hachiōji. The station was built to coincide with the opening of the adjoining Minamino City (Hachiōji New Town) housing district, and the entire ¥2.8 billion cost of the platforms and building was paid by the development's promoter, the Housing and Urban Development Corporation. The provisional name during construction was "Utsunuki" after the former locality. Automatic ticket gates were installed from opening day; Suica use began on 18 November 2001, and smart platform doors entered service on 5 November 2025.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The 2.8 billion-yen station was paid for in full by the urban-renewal agency that built the surrounding Minamino City new town, and its facade is shaped like a sideways figure-eight to echo the city's name (Hachiōji = "eight").