History
Kurihira Station opened on 1 June 1974 in the Kurihira neighbourhood of Asao-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, as a station on Odakyu Electric Railway's Tama Line. It became a Tama Express stop on 23 March 2002, an Express stop on 29 March 2003, and a Section Semi-Express stop on 11 December 2004. The station building was remodelled in March 2006. Following the 2018 timetable change, the line's new Rapid Express and Commuter Express services began stopping at Kurihira from 17 March 2018, while the older Semi-Express and Tama-Express trains were discontinued. From the 15 March 2025 revision, Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line through trains began stopping at the station. Kurihira carries the station number OT 02.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The station was originally designed for future expansion to two island platforms and four tracks, but subsequent additions of an elevator and a second ticket gate now make that expansion physically impossible.