Musashi-Koganei

Weekday departures: 728/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 344/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 4:43 / 24:39 (00:39 next day)

Busiest hour in the available data: 9:00–10:00 (48)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 4 May 2026.

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: Higashi-Koganei ⇄ Kokubunji

Musashi-Koganei Station was opened by the Ministry of Railways on 4 April 1924 as the provisional Musashi-Koganei boarding halt, set up to handle visitors to the Koganei cherry-blossom viewing season. It was upgraded to a full passenger station on 15 January 1926. A depot, Musashi-Koganei Densha-ku, was completed within the station grounds on 1 September 1959 and was renamed a detachment of the Toyoda Vehicle Centre in 2007; it lies on the west side of the station. The station passed to JR East at the 1 April 1987 privatisation and accepted Suica IC cards from 18 November 2001. A temporary station building entered service on 22 September 2002 to allow elevation works; the down line was lifted onto viaduct on 1 July 2007 and the up line on 6 December 2009, with a fourth track and platform face on the up side opening on 20 May 2012. The "Musashi" prefix in the name disambiguates the station from the existing Koganei Station on the Tōhoku Main Line in Tochigi Prefecture and from the Tama Railway's Shin-Koganei. The station number is JC 15.

On 1 April 2006, the station's 80th anniversary, the departure melody was changed to an arrangement of the traditional song "Sakura Sakura", a nod to the celebrated Koganei Sakura cherry trees planted along the Tamagawa Aqueduct in the Edo period and to the cherry trees of Koganei Park. It is still used on the down-line platforms, while the up-line platforms (tracks 3 and 4) switched to other melodies from 1 September 2020.