History
Myōrenji Station opened on 14 February 1926 on the Tōkyū Tōyoko Line as Myōrenji-mae, taking its name from the adjacent Nichiren Buddhist temple, which had granted land to the railway in exchange for the station's construction. Original facilities included a freight platform and a crossover, which were removed in 1935 and the 1960s respectively. The stop was renamed simply Myōrenji on 1 January 1931. A foot crossing was replaced by an underpass in the mid-1960s, and a second ticket gate on the downbound platform opened in June 2002, adding waiting rooms and toilet facilities. The station is assigned number TY17 in the Tōkyū station numbering system.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Because of the station's hybrid ground-level/elevated layout and 1920s footprint, it is the only stop on the entire Tōkyū Tōyoko Line that has neither an elevator nor an escalator.