Station

Kumegawa

久米川

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Kumegawa
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Timetable information

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Location

History

Kumegawa Station opened on 16 April 1927 on Seibu Railway's Shinjuku Line in Higashimurayama, Tokyo. The site was supplied by Tōkyō Tochi Jūtaku, a land company that had launched a 300,000-tsubo subdivision development in the area in 1925 hoping to attract residents, although the buyers were largely investors and the surrounding district remained sparsely populated for years. A new station building entered service on 27 December 1981 after lengthy negotiations among the city, the railway, and disability-rights groups, with the platform layout having earlier been converted from a single island to two opposed side platforms on 1 July 1966. A rebuilt north entrance building opened in 2010 and an in-station elevator followed in 2013.

Notes

When the surrounding subdivision failed to bring residents, the empty land came to be used as a campground: in 1931 a Boy Scout camp organised by the Tokyo Federation of Boys' Associations drew 2,500 boys from across Japan, and after that success Seibu promoted the site as the "Kumegawa Tent Village", offering users a 30 percent fare discount.

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