History
Iriya Station opened on 23 June 1935 as a Sagami Railway station, located in what is now Iriyanishi 5-chōme, Zama, Kanagawa Prefecture. It was nationalised on 1 June 1944, becoming a Ministry of Transport (later JNR) station on the Sagami Line. Freight handling ended on 1 February 1961; before then, narrow-gauge trolley lines (610 mm and 762 mm gauge, the latter the Odakyū gravel tramway) ran from the station yard to the Sagami River to haul gravel. The station was made unstaffed on 10 October 1962. With JNR's breakup on 1 April 1987 it became a JR East station, and Suica service began on 18 November 2001. The station has a single side platform; before Miyayama and Kurami were unstaffed in February 2016, it was the only fully unstaffed station on the Sagami Line.
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
The station and the land immediately around it sit inside an urbanisation-control area and an agricultural promotion zone, so almost no non-agricultural development can take place around it; rice fields stretch in every direction and even the closest house is over 100 m from the station.