History
Shibusawa Station opened on 1 April 1927 with the inauguration of Odakyu's Odawara Line, taking 'direct' express stops from the start. The station was added to semi-express stops in 1946, restored express stops in 1949, and successively added commuter-express and commuter-semi-express services in the 1950s and 1960s. The present mountain-lodge-styled bridge station building and north-south free passage opened on 17 February 1993, when a renaming to 'Tanzawa Kōgen Station' was floated but rejected. Rapid-express service began on 11 December 2004. Station numbering as OH40 was introduced in January 2014, and the south plaza was reorganised for buses in 2007.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
At 163 metres above sea level Shibusawa is the highest-elevation station on the entire Odakyu network, and the 6.2 km gap to next-stop Shin-Matsuda is also the line's longest inter-station distance.