History
Keikyū Tomioka Station is on the Keikyū Main Line in Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, 36.7 km from the terminus at Shinagawa. It opened on 10 July 1930 as Shōnan-Tomioka, a seasonal halt of the Shōnan Electric Railway serving summer beach visitors, and was upgraded to a full station the following May. The Shōnan and Keihin electric railways merged in November 1941. The original station was destroyed in a US air raid on 10 June 1945, formally closed on 10 January 1947, and reopened that March exclusively for occupation personnel before reverting to civilian use in 1948. It was relocated in December 1955, renamed Keihin Tomioka in 1963, and assumed its present name on 1 June 1987.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
After reopening in March 1947, the station served as a private stop for US occupation forces; trains halted out of hours only when a station attendant raised a flag on the platform to signal that GIs wanted to board.