History
Kagawa Station, on the JR East Sagami Line in Chigasaki, Kanagawa, is 3.4 km from the line's terminus at Chigasaki and serves the northern part of the city. It opened on 28 September 1921 as a Sagami Railway station, the same day Samukawa Station to the north came into service. The Sagami Railway was nationalised on 1 June 1944 and merged into Japanese National Railways. The station passed to JR East at JNR's privatisation on 1 April 1987, gained Suica turnstiles in November 2001, and saw its west-side plaza opened on 1 April 2015. Its staffed ticket window closed on 12 February 2016.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Driver and astronaut Sōichi Noguchi attended nearby Chigasaki Hokuryō High School, just east of the station.