History
Kanazawa-bunko Station is on the Keikyū Main Line in Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, 39.5 km from the Shinagawa terminus. It opened on 1 April 1930 with the Shōnan Electric Railway. The Shōnan and Keihin electric railways merged on 1 November 1941, the unified Keihin company was absorbed into wartime Tokyu in May 1942, and Keikyū was reconstituted on 1 June 1948. An overhead concourse replaced the original station building on 11 November 1980. The station was assigned number KK49 when Keikyū introduced station numbering on 21 October 2010 and gained an Airport Limited Express call from May of the same year. Its name comes from the adjacent Kanazawa-bunko archive and museum, founded in 1275.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Locals sometimes call the station simply "Bunko," a usage that once appeared on train roller blinds before standardising to the full name.