Station

Nishi-Kunitachi

西国立

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Nishi-Kunitachi
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Timetable information

Weekday departures: 442/day · Sat & holiday departures: 225/day

First / last departure (weekday): 4:48 / 24:29 (00:29 next day)

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (33)


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

Timetable data as of 4 May 2026.

Adjacent stations

Location

History

Nishi-Kunitachi Station is a passenger stop on the JR East Nambu Line in Hagoromo, Tachikawa, Tokyo, situated 34.3 km from the line's southern terminus at Kawasaki and numbered JN 25. It opened on 11 December 1929, when the Nanbu Railway extended its line from Bubaigawara to Tachikawa; the railway was nationalised on 1 April 1944, and the station passed to JR East when Japanese National Railways was privatised on 1 April 1987. It has two opposed side platforms at ground level joined by a footbridge, with the station building on the east side of the tracks; the gate is run under contract for JR East, but a customer-support call system leaves it unstaffed and remotely attended for most of the day. Since rapid services began running the full length of the Nambu Line on 14 March 2015, they have passed through without stopping. The surroundings are mainly low-rise housing with a scattering of large apartment blocks, and several institutions carrying the Tachikawa name — among them Kyosai Tachikawa Hospital — are closer to this station than to Tachikawa Station. The city hall, the national Tachikawa joint government building and the public employment office that once stood nearby have all moved to the north side of Tachikawa Station; part of the former city hall site has housed the Tachikawa Children's Future Center since December 2012.

Notes

Despite carrying the "Nishi" (west) prefix relative to Kunitachi, the station actually sits in Hagoromo-chō in the city of Tachikawa, some distance from the Kunitachi city boundary.

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