History
Kamimizo Station opened on 29 April 1931 as Sagami-Yokoyama Station on the Sagami Railway, on the embankment that had been planned so that the railway could pass over the partly-built and ultimately bankrupt Sōbu Electric Railway. It was renamed Hon-Kamimizo on 7 November 1935, and was renamed again to its present name of Kamimizo on 1 June 1944 when the line was nationalised as the Ministry of Transport (later Japanese National Railways) Sagami Line; the station that had until then borne the name Kamimizo was renamed Banda. Parcel handling ended on 1 October 1979, and the station passed to JR East with the JNR breakup on 1 April 1987. Automatic ticket gates entered service on 26 February 1997, and an elevated rebuilding was completed on 8 April 2001 — the only elevated station on the Sagami Line — together with a new station plaza and bus terminal. Suica acceptance began later that same year, and the Midori-no-Madoguchi ticket office closed on 4 March 2016.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.