Fuchū-Hommachi Station (府中本町駅) is in Fuchū, Tokyo. East Japan Railway Company (JR East) runs it on the Musashino Line and the Nambu Line. It opened on 11 December 1928.
History
The station opened on 11 December 1928 with the opening of the Ōmaru to Yashikiwake section of the Nanbu Railway (南武鉄道). On 1 April 1944 the Nanbu Railway was nationalised, and the station became a station of the Nambu Line under the Ministry of Transport and Communications.
Freight handling ended on 1 August 1962. On 1 April 1973 the Musashino Line opened between this station and Shin-Matsudo. At the same time the Chūō Line branch between Kokubunji and Tokyo Keiba-mae was closed, and this station took over the role of Tokyo Keiba-mae Station in practice.
The Midori no Madoguchi ticket office opened on 1 December 1975. Parcel handling ended on 14 March 1985. On 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR East. Automatic ticket gates were brought into use on 16 September 1993. Suica became usable on 18 November 2001.
Rapid services on the revived Nambu Line began stopping here on 9 April 2011. The start had been planned for 12 March 2011, but it was postponed because of the Great East Japan Earthquake. Weekday rapid services were suspended on 24 June 2011 and resumed on 12 September 2011. On 14 March 2015 rapid services were extended to the whole Tachikawa to Kawasaki section. This station kept its rapid stop, and the next station, Minami-Tama, became a rapid pass-through station.
The telework booth STATION BOOTH, in the shared office STATION WORK, opened on 25 November 2021. The Midori no Madoguchi closed on 31 October 2022. A talking reserved-seat ticket machine was introduced on 1 November 2022. Smart platform doors began operating on platforms 1 and 4 of the Nambu Line on 17 February 2023.
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