History
Kagetsu-sōjiji Station opened on 12 April 1914 on the Keikyū Main Line, originally named Kagetsuen-mae for the adjacent Kagetsuen Amusement Park that operated until 1946. The site was redeveloped as the Kagetsuen Keirin track until that venue closed in March 2010. The station was rebuilt as an elevated structure in December 1971 and assigned station number KK30 when Keikyū introduced numbering on 21 October 2010. The station was renamed Kagetsu-sōjiji on 14 March 2020, the new name reflecting both the redevelopment of the Kagetsuen district and the nearby Sōji-ji Buddhist temple, headquarters of the Sōtō Zen school. A renovation and seismic-strengthening project on the station building began in February 2024.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The level crossing beside the station spans five sets of tracks (Yokosuka, Keihin-Tōhoku, Tōkaidō Main, Tōkaidō freight, and Keikyū Main) and is locally notorious as an "opens-but-never-closes" black spot.