History
Sagami-Kaneko Station opened on 25 December 1956 as an unstaffed JNR station between Kami-Ōi and Matsuda on the Gotemba Line, 8.3 km from Kōzu. Located in the Kaneko district of Ōi town in Ashigarakami District, Kanagawa, the station took the old-province prefix Sagami because a Kaneko Station already existed on the Hachikō Line. It served diesel railcar passenger traffic from opening and saw its yard electrified on 27 April 1968 when the Gotemba Line between Kōzu and Gotemba was electrified. JR Central took over on 1 April 1987 at JNR's privatisation, station numbering CB03 was assigned in March 2018, and TOICA IC-card service began on 2 March 2019.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
The Sagami prefix was added because a Kaneko Station already existed on the Hachikō Line; Sagami-Kaneko is otherwise simply named after the Kaneko district of Ōi.