History
Kikuna Station opened on the privately held Tokyo-Yokohama Electric Railway (predecessor of the Tokyu Tōyoko Line) on 14 February 1926; the Government Railways began service to Kikuna later the same year, on 1 September. A Kikuna Connecting Line linking the two sides briefly existed from March 1927 until its removal in September 1966. Freight handling ended in 1970. In 1972 the Tokyu side was rebuilt with elevated tracks and a new station building, but the new tracks sat unused until the Hibiya Line through-service began on 9 August 1988. The JNR portion passed to JR East at privatisation in 1987, Yokohama Line numbering JH15 was introduced on 20 August 2016, and Hibiya Line through-service was discontinued in 2013 when the Tokyu Tōyoko Line started through-running with the Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin Line.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-10.