History
Tana Station opened on 1 April 1966 on Tōkyū's newly built Den-en-toshi Line in Aoba Ward, Yokohama. The provisional name during the 1960 application was "Onda Station", after the local place-name, but the operator's standing committee chose Tana in September 1965 — taken from a now-disappeared pre-Meiji municipal name covering the area, with the Onda label kept aside for what later became Onda Station on the Kodomonokuni Line in 2000. The area surrounding the station was officially designated Tana-chō from 1971. Tana sits between two express-stop neighbours (Aobadai and Nagatsuta) and is served only by local trains, leaving it as the Den-en-toshi Line's least-used stop. It has two opposed side platforms on an elevated structure (DT21).
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
On 25 July 2001, lightning struck the adjacent Tana substation during a typhoon; abnormal current destroyed its switchgear, halting the entire Den-en-toshi Line for the day and forcing a 30 % service cut and the suspension of express running until 3 August.