History
Hemi Station opened on 1 April 1930 on the Shōnan Electric Railway between Anjinzuka and Shioiri, originally as a single island platform with two tracks. The Shōnan and Keihin railways merged in 1941, the line passed through Tokyu Corporation in 1942 and emerged again as Keikyu in 1948. On 7 September 1958 the layout was rebuilt into a Shinkansen-style arrangement with two side platforms and two through tracks for express overtakes, the configuration it still uses today. Platforms were lengthened from four cars to six on 18 December 1972, and elevators were added in March 2013 (upbound) and March 2014 (downbound and concourse).
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
Hemi has a Shinkansen-style platform layout for through expresses, but because the platforms sit on a sharp curve, even the through trains are speed-limited to 40 km/h upbound and 65 km/h downbound across the points.