History
Anzen Station opened on 10 March 1926 as Anzenmachi Station, a freight stop on the privately operated Tsurumi Rinkō Railway, named after Yasuda Zaibatsu founder Yasuda Zenjirō who had backed the railway. A separate passenger station, Anzendōri, opened nearby on 28 October 1930. The two were merged under the present name on 1 July 1943 when the Tsurumi Rinkō line was nationalised. The stop became unstaffed on 1 March 1971 and passed to JR East and JR Freight upon the 1987 privatisation of the Japanese National Railways. Since the removal of the Ōkawa branch platform at Musashi-Shiraishi in March 1996, Anzen has functioned as the operational divergence point between the Tsurumi Line main route and the Ōkawa branch.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The kanji for Anzen (安善) read identically to anzen (安全, "safety"), and the station's tickets were once bought in bulk by young Japanese travellers as good-luck charms.