Tamagawagakuen-mae

History

Tamagawagakuen-mae Station serves the Odakyu Odawara Line in the city of Machida, Tokyo, and is numbered OH26. It opened on 1 April 1929 after Tamagawa Gakuen's founder Kuniyoshi Obara donated the station building to the Odawara Express Railway in order to attract a stop adjacent to the new school campus and so help finance its construction. The current third-generation station building dates from 19 July 1970 and at that time briefly hosted the only automatic ticket gates on the entire Odakyu network as a trial installation. An interior elevator entered service on 21 March 2003, and station numbering arrived in January 2014, with Tamagawagakuen-mae assigned OH26.

History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.

Notes

When the current 1970 station building opened it briefly held the only automatic ticket gates on the entire Odakyu network, installed as an experiment; they were removed a few years later after frequent breakdowns.