Musashi-Yamato

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Musashi-Yamato Station opened on 23 January 1930 as the Murayama Chosuichi (provisional) terminus of the Tamako Railway Tamako Line, sited 1.3 km closer to Hagiyama than originally planned because agreement had not been reached over the point where the line would cross the so-called Hakonegasaki line. When the line was extended in December 1936 the provisional station was relocated north of the new Hakonegasaki overbridge and renamed Musashi-Yamato, the "Yamato" coming from the historic Yamato village (now Higashiyamato City). Tamako Railway became part of the Musashino Railway in March 1940 and subsequently of present-day Seibu Railway in September 1945. The station was rebuilt to single platform single track in September 1961, gained an elevator and accessible facilities in March 2011, and was assigned station number ST06 during fiscal 2012.

For many years the platform could take only four-car trains, so the longer Shinjuku Line through-services of six cars or more passed the station without stopping; only after a 1996 extension to eight-car length did every Tamako Line passenger train begin to stop here.