History
Hongōdai Station serves the Negishi Line in Sakae-ku, Yokohama, and is located 18.5 km from the Yokohama-end terminus of the line. It opened on 9 April 1973 when the Negishi Line was extended from Yōkōdai to Ōfuna, on land formerly occupied by the Imperial Japanese Navy's First Fuel Depot and later requisitioned by Allied occupation forces. The planned working name was "Shin-Ōfuna," but the present name was chosen to reflect the historic Hongō district. Operation passed from Japanese National Railways to JR East at privatisation on 1 April 1987. The Midori no Madoguchi ticket office closed on 28 October 2021.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The site was once a hillside containing more than 100 ancient tunnel tombs of the Nanaishiyama group, most of which were lost when the slope was cut down during construction in 1967.