History
Miyayama Station opened on 1 July 1931 as a halt on the Sagami Railway, established at the request of Samukawa Shrine and local residents, the shrine being the principal Ichinomiya of Sagami Province. The line was nationalised on 1 June 1944 and Miyayama was elevated from a halt to a full station on the same date as part of the Japanese Government Railways' Sagami Line. The stop became unstaffed on 10 October 1962, and JR East took over at JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987. Suica IC card service began on 18 November 2001. Routine staffing ceased on 21 February 2016, and a new station building opened on 17 December 2023.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
During the New Year shrine-visit season the road around Miyayama is closed to traffic from 31 December to 3 January, and several temporary plywood ticket booths are set up around the station building.