History
Kanazawa-hakkei Station opened on 1 April 1930 as a stop on the Shōnan Electric Railway, predecessor of today's Keikyū, in Kanazawa Ward, Yokohama. After mergers folded the operator into the Keihin Electric Railway in 1941, the wartime Tokyū conglomerate in 1942 and the present Keikyū in 1948, the station became the junction of the Keikyū Main and Zushi lines. Yokohama New Transit's Kanazawa Seaside Line opened a connecting station on 5 July 1989, initially in a temporary structure 200 m to the east. A new elevated concourse opened on 26 January 2019 with the relocated Seaside Line platforms following on 31 March 2019.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-10.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
The Kanazawa Hakkei name comes from a series of ukiyo-e woodblock prints by Andō Hiroshige (1835–1836) depicting eight views of the surrounding coast.