History
Sagami-Ōno Station was originally a 1929 signal post (Ōno Shingōsho), 0.2 km west of the present site, that was promoted to a passenger station on 1 April 1938 to serve the relocated Imperial Japanese Army Telecommunication School (Rikugun Tsūshin Gakkō). It was first named Tsūshin-Gakkō ("Telecommunication School") Station and renamed Sagami-Ōno on 15 December 1940 to mask the military facility. The station moved to its current location on 1 September 1996, opening alongside the Odakyu Sagamihara Station Square shopping complex, and gained its Romancecar limited-express service in 1998. Station numbering OH28 was introduced in January 2014, and on 2 September 2024 the band Alexandros's song "Wataridori" became the train-approach melody.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
The local funk-pop trio Ikimonogakari—originally just Mizuno Yoshiki and Yamashita Hotaka—performed street concerts in front of Sagami-Ōno Station in their earliest days, before adding singer Yoshioka Kiyoe and shifting their base to Hon-Atsugi.