History
Hirama Station opened on 9 March 1927 as a stopping point ("Hirama Teiryūjo") on the Nambu Railway's Kawasaki - Noborito section, in Nakahara-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa. The Nambu Railway was nationalized on 1 April 1944, and the station was renamed simply Hirama Station, becoming a Ministry of Transport Nambu Line station. From 15 April 1945, due to wartime air raids cutting the Kawasaki - Mukōgawara section, service at Hirama was suspended; it resumed on 1 May 1946. Parcel handling ended on 10 April 1958. With the privatization of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987, Hirama came under JR East. Automatic ticket gates were installed on 15 February 1994, and Suica IC card use began on 18 November 2001. A railway-customer support remote call system was introduced on 15 February 2015, and smart platform doors entered service on 17 January 2025. The station carries the station number JN 05.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The Hirama level crossing (Hirama Ekimae Fumikiri) immediately north of the station is one of the Tokyo-area's notorious "crossings that won't open". It has been formally designated by the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism on 12 April 2016 as a level crossing requiring improvement, and from 26 February 2021 the crossing's downbound-train warning timing has been controlled by a "crossing-warning-time control device" — distinguishing between through and stopping trains — to shorten closure times.