History
Kamakura Station opened on 16 June 1889 on the government-railway spur from Ōfuna to Yokosuka, serving the Imperial Japanese Navy's arsenal facilities. The line was officially designated the Yokosuka Line in October 1909. The Enoshima Electric Railway opened the adjacent Kamachi stop in October 1910, renamed Kamakura in October 1915 and relocated to the present site on 1 March 1949 alongside the JR concourse. The current JNR station building was completed on 3 October 1984, with the iconic two-storey clock tower from the second-generation building (1916) preserved in the west plaza. The station passed to JR East at privatisation on 1 April 1987, and the JR platforms received numbers JO 07 (Yokosuka Line) and JS 07 (Shōnan-Shinjuku Line) in 2016.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
Although other Enoden stations charge 190 yen for a platform entry ticket, Kamakura is exceptionally priced at 130 yen to match the adjoining JR fare structure — though that ticket can only be used inside the Enoden side of the shared station.