History
Samukawa Station, on the JR East Sagami Line in Samukawa, Kanagawa, lies 5.1 km from the line's terminal at Chigasaki. It opened on 28 September 1921 as a Sagami Railway station and gained the Nishi-Samukawa freight branch the following May. The Sagami Railway was nationalised on 1 June 1944 and folded into Japanese National Railways. Freight handling ended in 1971, and the branch line itself closed on 1 April 1984. The station was rebuilt with an elevated overhead concourse in September 1985. With JNR's privatisation on 1 April 1987 it passed to JR East, and Suica turnstiles were introduced in November 2001.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Construction of the 1985 elevated station cost 153 million yen, with the town of Samukawa contributing 58 million and the nearby Samukawa Shrine 30 million.