History
Tama-Center Station, on the Tama Toshi Monorail Line, opened on 10 January 2000 as the line's terminus and shares a name and walkable footprint with the adjacent Keiō and Odakyū stations. The monorail station's elevated structure spans Machida-Hino Road and sits roughly 200 metres from the Keiō and Odakyū platforms, connected by a pedestrian deck. The exterior is designed to evoke a steam-locomotive driving wheel, with the design earning selection to the 2000 list of the 100 most notable Kantō stations. Future extensions toward Machida and Hachiōji are designated by Tokyo Metropolitan Government for prioritisation.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station's exterior design—chosen to suggest a locomotive's driving wheel—won it a 2000 Kantō Station 100 selection as "a station newly born at the heart of Tama New Town, designed with the image of a wheel".