Station

Daitabashi

代田橋

Daitabashi
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Train service

No publicly available departure data for this station.

Location

History

Daitabashi Station opened on 15 April 1913 with the original Keiō Electric Tramway between Sasazuka and Chōfu. Wartime consolidation moved it through Tokyu in May 1944, and the spun-off Keio Teito Electric Railway took ownership in June 1948. The site straddles a slope, so the Sasazuka side is elevated to clear the Tamagawa Aqueduct, while the entrance lies below ground on the Keiō-Hachiōji side. Continuous grade-separation works affecting Daitabashi began on 28 February 2014, and once finished the platforms will become a single island. The name commemorates a former bridge over the Tamagawa Aqueduct, itself drawing on the local place-name Daita.

Notes

Daitabashi is one of the last places where the otherwise-buried Tamagawa Aqueduct still flows in the open, and the bridge that lent the station its name no longer exists.

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