History
Higashimonzen Station opened on 1 June 1944 as a station of the wartime conglomerate Tokyu Corporation (the "Great Tokyu"), reusing infrastructure that had earlier hosted a station on the Kaigan Electric Transport line. On 1 June 1948 the station passed to Keihin Electric Express Railway when Keikyū was spun back out of Tokyu. The station numbering scheme introduced on 21 October 2010 gave it KK24. It sits on opposite side platforms connected by a level crossing toward the Kojimashinden end of the line, with an underpass providing pedestrian access. Construction to relocate the station underground as part of the Daishi Line continuous-grade-separation project is scheduled to begin in March 2027 and conclude by fiscal 2037.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Although the station's name refers to the great mountain gate of nearby Heiken-ji (Kawasaki Daishi temple), the actual gate sits roughly 450 metres away — closer to the next stop, Kawasaki-Daishi.