Station

Meidaimae

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Meidaimae
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Train service

No publicly available departure data for this station.

Location

History

Meidaimae Station opened on 15 April 1913 as Kayakukomae Station on the Keiō Electric Tramway, taking its name from a former Edo-period gunpowder magazine. It was renamed Matsubara in 1917 and acquired its present name on 8 February 1935, the year after the Meiji University preparatory department moved into the neighbourhood. A second set of platforms opened on the Inokashira Line on 1 August 1933, originally branded Nishi-Matsubara, and the two lines have crossed at this interchange ever since. In 1944 wartime mergers folded the line into Tokyu and a 1948 split produced today's Keio Corporation. Station numbering KO06 and IN08 was introduced on 22 February 2013, and a station building called Frente Meidaimae opened on 24 May 2007.

Notes

In February 2001 a 30-kilowatt solar array was installed on the platform roof in cooperation with the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization; the electricity it generates powers the station's lighting.

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