History
Sagami-Ōtsuka Station opened on 12 May 1926 as a station of the privately owned Jinchū Railway, located near today's Sagamino Station. It was relocated about fifty metres towards Ebina around 1943, then moved again to the present site and rebuilt as an elevated-gateway station on 17 August 1975. A runaway 3000-series train damaged a turnout in the storage siding on 16 December 1998 and was scrapped the following year. Station platform doors entered service on 16 January 2022.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The station's name comes from the "Sagami Ōtsuka kofun," an ancient burial mound said to have stood near the original 1926 station site. The grounds at Sagami-Ōtsuka include a 9-track storage yard, and every March around the birthday of Sotetsu's mascot character "Sounyan" (the Sunday closest to 10 March), the railway holds an annual "Sounyan Birthday Festa in Sagami-Ōtsuka" event with photo opportunities of new and old Sounyan-themed trains and special merchandise sales.