History
Tōkaichiba Station opened on 1 April 1979 as a Japanese National Railways station, debuting alongside Naruse on the opposite side of Nagatsuta as part of the Yokohama Line's double-tracking. Japan's first three-storey bicycle parking opened in front of the station on 23 April 1980. The station passed to JR East on 1 April 1987 at privatisation. Automatic ticket gates entered service on 23 August 1994 and Suica on 18 November 2001. The Midori-no-Madoguchi window closed on 29 February 2012 and operation was contracted out from 15 May 2012. ATOS service began on 12 July 2015, and smart-home-door platform-edge doors came into use on 12 September 2023. Tōkaichiba has a single island platform and carries number JH20.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
On opening day, station staff forgot to raise the shutters before the first train departed.