History
Saginuma Station opened on 1 April 1966 on the Tōkyū Den-en-toshi Line in Miyamae Ward, Kawasaki. At opening, four-car trains arriving from the Ōimachi Line had two cars decoupled here for the run westward; that practice ended in October 1968 when through-running with four cars to Nagatsuta began. In July 1979 the Saginuma rolling-stock depot on the down side was transferred to the Teito Rapid Transit Authority (now Tokyo Metro). A second ticket gate, the North Gate, opened on 29 March 2011, and the dedicated season-ticket counter closed on 15 August 2022. The platforms sit in a hillside cutting with the station building above.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Tokyo Metro's Saginuma Inspection Depot for the Hanzōmon Line sits directly south of the station and is one of the rare cases of a Tokyo Metro rolling-stock depot located outside the 23 wards of Tokyo.