History
Musashi-Shiraishi Station first opened on 10 March 1926 as a freight-only stop on the privately operated Tsurumi Rinkō Railway, named after Japan Steel Works founder Shiraishi Motojiro. The original station was closed in November 1930 and a passenger stop was reopened on 25 July 1931, upgraded to full station status on 17 March 1936. The Tsurumi Rinkō Railway was nationalised on 1 July 1943, folding the stop into the Japanese Government Railways network. Service became unstaffed on 1 March 1971, and JR East assumed operation following the 1987 JNR privatisation. The Ōkawa branch line platform here was removed in March 1996 when longer three-car trains began running, leaving the station served by mainline trains only.
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
Despite being written with the same characters as several other Japanese stations, this is the only railway stop in Japan whose name reads the kanji 白石 as "Shiraishi" rather than "Shiroishi."