History
Fudōmae Station opened on 11 March 1923 as Meguro Fudōmae Station on the Meguro–Kamata Railway in what is now Shinagawa, Tokyo. The "Meguro" prefix was dropped to the present form in October 1923. A freight platform was removed in May 1936. As part of the Meguro–Senzoku continuous grade-separation project, the station moved to a temporary site south of Yamate Avenue in January 1998 and returned in an elevated configuration in October 1999. The Mekama Line was split in August 2000, making this a Meguro Line station, and platform-edge doors entered service on 29 September 2002. The elevated rebuild was completed in January 2003.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Meguro Kamata Railway executive Keita Goto deliberately dropped "Meguro" from the original station name to underline that this stop was the closest to the popular Meguro Fudō temple, despite the temple itself being a fifteen-minute walk away in Meguro Ward.