History
Kozukue Station opened on 23 September 1908 with the inauguration of the privately operated Yokohama Railway between Higashi-Kanagawa and Hachioji. The line was leased to the Railway Bureau in 1910 and nationalised on 1 October 1917, becoming part of the Government Railways' Yokohama Line. The station building was destroyed in the Great Kantō Earthquake on 1 September 1923 and rebuilt in the closing years of the Taishō era. Freight handling ended in March 1972. With JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR East, a new bridge-style station building was completed on 18 October 1998, and Yokohama Line station numbering JH17 was introduced on 20 August 2016.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
When Kozukue opened in 1908 only two or three houses stood near the station — the surrounding area was mostly fields, and even the old village centre of Kozukue did not migrate to the station's vicinity until the late Taishō era.