History
Odasakae Station opened on 26 March 2016 as the first of JR East's 'strategic new stations' — built through a partnership with Kawasaki City to lift transport convenience around the rapidly growing Odasakae district. Total construction cost of roughly 548 million yen was shared equally between JR East and Kawasaki. The station name was chosen by a public ballot between 5 and 21 August 2015 from three candidates (Odasakae, Oda-Kawasaki, Oda-Yasaka-shin); 'Odasakae' won 889 of 1,125 votes and was announced on 24 September 2015. Station numbering JN53 was added on 1 October 2016, and the station was redesignated permanent on 14 March 2020.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Until Odasakae's 2016 opening, JR East had not built a new passenger station inside Kawasaki City limits since the railway's privatisation in 1987.