History
Mukōgaoka-Yūen Station opened on 1 April 1927 as Inada-Noborito Station on the Odakyu Odawara Line in what is now Tama-ku, Kawasaki. The station was renamed on 1 April 1955 to promote the adjacent Mukōgaoka-Yūen amusement park, which itself closed on 31 March 2002. The Mukōgaoka-Yūen Monorail opened from this station to the park on 23 April 1966 and was discontinued on 1 February 2001. Quadruple-tracking and station rebuilding between Tokyu and the neighbouring Noborito Station progressed through the 2000s, with the upgraded station body in its present form by 2009. Station decor with Doraemon and Kiteretsu Daihyakka theming was introduced in 2011 to mark the opening of the nearby Fujiko F. Fujio Museum.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The original 1927 name "Inada-Noborito" was inadvertently echoed in the neighbouring station's 1958 renaming: once Inada-Noborito became Mukōgaoka-Yūen in 1955, neighbouring Inada-Tamagawa was renamed Noborito to keep the historical place-name on the line.