History
Shin-Ōtsu Station opened on 1 December 1942 under the wartime Tokyu conglomerate as Narukami Station — a name then applied to the Japanese-occupied Kiska Island in the Aleutians. It took its current name on 1 February 1948 and passed to the newly incorporated Keikyū on 1 June 1948. The flanking sections of the Keikyū Kurihama Line were double-tracked on 15 June 1954. Kaitoku limited-express services began stopping on 31 July 1999, and the present station building with footbridge elevator was rebuilt in April 2007. Since 30 March 2024 the station has been unstaffed between the first train and 07:00, with remote monitor-phone support. The stop carries number KK65.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station was opened in response to a petition from local residents and Kanagawa Prefecture asking for a stop in front of the prefectural Yokosuka Girls' High School, today's Yokosuka-Ōtsu High School.