Keio-tamagawa

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Keiō-tamagawa Station opened on 1 June 1916 as Tamagawara Station (多摩川原駅) of Keio Electric Tramway, in the city of Chōfu, Tokyo. At opening, the station was the terminus of a branch from Chōfu Station, intended primarily for transporting gravel mined from the Tama River. Following the opening of the Keiōkaku leisure complex in 1927, the station also began carrying significant numbers of leisure passengers. The station was renamed Keiō-tamagawa Station on 1 May 1937 to distinguish it from the then-named Tamagawa-en-mae Station of the Tokyo Yokohama Electric Railway (later Tamagawa-en, now Tamagawa Station), which had earlier been called Tamagawa. It became an elevated station on 21 December 1968 and an intermediate station on 1 April 1971 with the extension of the Sagamihara Line to Keiō Yomiuri-Land Station. The station carries the station number KO35.

The station's 1937 rename to Keiō-tamagawa was driven by the need to distinguish it from another station — Tokyo Yokohama Electric Railway's Tamagawa-en-mae Station (later Tamagawa-en Station, now Tamagawa Station) on the present-day Tokyu Tōyoko Line. That station was renamed back to Tamagawa Station in 2000.