History
Hakone-Itabashi Station opened on 1935-10-01 when the Hakone Tozan Railway, founded in 1928, converted its Odawara-to-Hakone-Yumoto tram line into a full railway. The Odawara city tram line that had connected at the station was discontinued on 1956-06-01. From 2006-03-18 standard-gauge Hakone Tozan Railway rolling stock stopped using the station, and the short, narrow-gauge-only side platform has been closed ever since. PASMO was introduced on 2007-03-18, station numbering OH48 in January 2014, a new station building opened on 2018-09-30, and operation transferred to Odakyu Hakone on 2024-04-01.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
Despite the "Hakone" prefix, the station sits well within Odawara city, less than a kilometre from the JR Tōkaidō Line's Hayakawa Station.