History
Nakada Station opened on 29 August 1999 with the extension of the Yokohama Municipal Subway Blue Line (Line 1) between Totsuka and Shōnandai. It was outsourced to Keiō Setsubi Service on 1 December 2004. Platform-edge doors entered service on 1 September 2007, followed by PASMO-only gates on 8 December 2007 and docomo Wi-Fi service in May 2012. With the 18 July 2015 timetable change the station was added to the Rapid (Kaisoku) service stop list, since all trains south of Totsuka call at every station.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Although the local pronunciation of the surrounding place-name was traditionally "Nakada," when residential addresses were modernised the area was officially relabelled "Nakata." Before the subway opened, local elder Mr. Okutsu led a community delegation in talks with the city's transport bureau to ensure that the new station was officially registered with the historical reading "Nakada," reverting from the formal "Nakata."