Kenkyu-gakuen

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Kenkyū-gakuen Station opened on 24 August 2005 with the Tsukuba Express, on a viaduct at Karima 1229-1 in Tsukuba, Ibaraki. The working name during construction was "Katsuragi Station"; it was changed to the present name on 8 October 2003, and the change was formally processed in the 2004 notification of the revised construction plan. The station stands inside the former test course of the Japan Automobile Research Institute, in a district the City of Tsukuba has designated a sub-centre and is developing, and which in practice has filled with roadside retail led by iias Tsukuba and Costco, together with apartment blocks around the station. The address was reorganised to Kenkyū-gakuen 5-chōme 9-1 on 28 June 2014, and in September 2021 the city launched the "TsukuChari" shared-cycle pilot with a port at the station.

Kenkyū-gakuen is the line's closest above-ground station to Mount Tsukuba, and on clear days the mountain's twin peaks can be seen from the train. Special buses for the Tsukuba Marathon, held each November, deliberately start and terminate here to spread out the crowding.