Kenkyū-gakuen

Weekday departures: 197/day · Sat & holiday departures: 155/day

First / last train (weekday): 0:03 / 24:41

Busiest hour: 19:00–20:00 (15)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map.

• Tsukuba Express: Tsukuba ⇄ Bampaku-kinenkoen (Ibaraki)

Kenkyū-gakuen Station opened on 24 August 2005 with the Tsukuba Express, on a viaduct in Karima 1229-1 in Tsukuba, Ibaraki. The working name during construction was "Katsuragi Station," changed to the current name through a 2003 formal notification and revised filings in 2004. The station's catchment sits inside the former test track of the Japan Automobile Research Institute, now part of a designated city sub-centre that the City of Tsukuba is developing with roadside retail (including iias Tsukuba and Costco) and high-rise housing. The address was reorganised to Kenkyū-gakuen 5-chōme 9-1 on 28 June 2014, and in September 2021 the city launched the "TsukuChari" shared-cycle pilot with a port at the station.

On the elevated platforms the line's only ground-level station with a clear view of Mt. Tsukuba's twin peaks, the Tsukuba Marathon deliberately routes shuttle buses through here to spread the crowd load away from Tsukuba Station.