History
Seya Station opened on 12 May 1926 as a stop on the Jinchū Railway, the predecessor of today's Sōtetsu Main Line. A new footbridge station building and north–south free passage entered service on 28 March 2004. Between 2010 and 2013 the station was rebuilt as two island platforms with four tracks to allow Limited Express overtaking under the Eastern Kanagawa Rail Link plan; the third track had originally served freight operations. Platform doors entered service on the inner tracks on 27 March 2022 and on the outer tracks on 24 July 2022. Stops by Limited Express overtakes have run during weekday mornings since 2015 and now occur in both directions, with timetable updates in 2019 and 2023 expanding the pattern.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station will be the closest stop to the 2027 International Horticultural Expo (the seventh World Expo to be held in Japan).