Kunitachi

Weekday departures: 745/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 351/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 4:35 / 24:46 (00:46 next day)

Busiest hour in the available data: 7:00–8:00 (49)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026 to 4 May 2026: the timetables behind these figures were retrieved on different dates.

The timetable data is incomplete for some or all lines at this station, so the weekday and Sat & holiday figures are departures in the available timetable data, not totals.

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• Chuo Main Line: timetable covers only part of the line

• Chuo Main Line: Nishi-Kokubunji ⇄ Tachikawa

Kunitachi Station opened on 1 April 1926 between Kokubunji and Tachikawa, taking one kanji from each neighbour's name; the surrounding district was developed as a Hitotsubashi-University-anchored garden suburb by Tsutsumi Yasujirō's Hakone Land company, which built the original red triangular-roof station and transferred it to the Railway Ministry. The line was double-tracked to Kunitachi by 15 October 1928 and electrified through to Tachikawa in 1929. JR East took over at the 1987 nationwide breakup. Elevation works began in June 2003, the down-bound platform shifted to its viaduct on 11 January 2009, the up-bound on 7 November 2010, and the new up-bound main track (Platform 3) was added on 16 December 2012.

When the elevation works forced removal of Kunitachi's 1926 triangular-roof station building — Tokyo's second-oldest wooden station house after Harajuku — the city of Kunitachi raised the funds itself, dismantling the building in late 2006, storing its parts and finally restoring it on its original footprint as an information centre on 6 April 2020.