Timetable information
Weekday departures: 398/day · Sat & holiday departures: 233/day
First / last departure (weekday): 5:00 / 24:09 (00:09 next day)
Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (33)
0:00 ─ 23:00
Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.
Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.
Adjacent stations
- JR Musashino Line: Nishi-Kokubunji ⇄ Fuchu-Hommachi
Location
History
Kita-Fuchū Station is a JR East Musashino Line stop in Fuchū city, Tokyo, 1.7 km from the Fuchū-Hommachi terminus and numbered JM 34. Its origins lie in the Tokyo Gravel Railway, a freight branch from Kokubunji opened in 1910; that became the Chūō Main Line's Shimogawara freight branch in 1920. After wartime worker shuttles ran here without formal status, a provisional halt at Fujimi opened on 21 January 1949, was downgraded to a signal box in 1952, then re-promoted to Kita-Fuchū Station on 1 September 1956. The Shimogawara branch was absorbed into the Musashino Line on 1 April 1973, freight ceased in 1982, and the station passed to JR East at JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987.
Notes
Sidings west of the station run into the adjacent Toshiba Fuchū plant, where finished electric locomotives are commissioned and shipped out — EF65 locomotives held there for component testing are frequently visible from passing Musashino Line trains.
Sources
- Wikipedia (English) (opens in a new tab)
- Wikipedia (日本語) (opens in a new tab)
- Photo: DAJF · CC BY-SA 3.0 (opens in a new tab) · Wikimedia Commons (opens in a new tab)
Last updated: 2026-05-18