Station

Hitotsubashi-gakuen

一橋学園

Hitotsubashi-gakuen
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Train service

No publicly available departure data for this station.

Location

History

Hitotsubashi-Gakuen Station opened on 6 April 1928 on the Seibu Tamako Line between Kodaira and Kokubunji via Hagiyama, though the present station is actually the consolidated successor of two earlier stops. Kodaira-Gakuen Station opened in 1928, followed in 1933 by Shōdai-Yokamae Station (renamed Hitotsubashi-Daigaku in 1949), which sat roughly 300 metres apart on the same single-track branch. After more than a decade of debate over capacity expansion, Seibu Railway merged the two stops on 1 July 1966 at the present site, coining the composite name. Station numbering was introduced across the Seibu network in fiscal 2012, with the stop designated ST02.

Notes

The station name was coined from the two predecessor stops it replaced; despite implying a school, there is no "Hitotsubashi-Gakuen" institution.

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