History
Tōkaichiba Station opened on 1 April 1979 as a JNR station on the Yokohama Line, alongside Naruse Station on the opposite side of nearby Nagatsuta, and was a focal point of the line's doubling-track promotion drive. The very first scheduled departure was delayed because staff forgot to open the shutters in time. The country's first three-storey bicycle parking deck opened in front of the station on 23 April 1980. The station passed to JR East at JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987, gained automated turnstiles in 1994, Suica gates on 18 November 2001, and station number JH20 on 2 April 2016.
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
On its opening day in 1979 the first scheduled train was delayed because station staff had forgotten to open the shutters in time — a footnote in the local railway history.