History
Katase-Enoshima Station opened on 1 April 1929 as the southern terminus of the Odakyu Enoshima Line, 59.9 kilometres from Shinjuku. It sits closest to the island of Enoshima of the three nearby stations carrying that name, and was designed from the start to evoke Ryūgū-jō, the underwater Dragon Palace of the Urashima Tarō legend. The original timber building was registered as a Top-100 Kantō Station in 1999. A full rebuild began in February 2018 and was completed at the end of July 2020, retaining the dragon-palace theme while adding accessibility features and a jellyfish tank in the concourse provided in cooperation with the Enoshima Aquarium.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station was registered as a temporary structure until 1930, because a rival tramway licence covering Ōfuna–Enoshima–Chigasaki had to expire before the dragon-palace building could be made permanent.