Hashimoto Station (橋本駅) is in Sagamihara, Kanagawa. East Japan Railway Company runs the Sagami Line and Yokohama Line here, and Keio also serves the station. It opened on 23 September 1908 as a Yokohama Railway station between Higashi-Kanagawa and Hachioji.
History
No station was originally planned here. Local people set up a committee to open the station and gave private land for it. The station opened on 23 September 1908 as part of the Yokohama Railway line between Higashi-Kanagawa and Hachioji. The Railway Agency leased the station from 1 April 1910. On 1 October 1917 it was nationalized and became a station on the Yokohama Line.
On 29 April 1931 the Sagami Railway line was extended from Atsugi to here. On 1 June 1944 the Sagami Line was taken over during the war and became a national railway line. In May 1945 the national railway Hashimoto workshop began work, with a siding built to it.
A new elevated station building with a pedestrian deck opened on 1 April 1980. Freight handling ended on 1 February 1984, and parcel handling ended on 14 March 1985. The workshop closed in March 1986, and the site was later redeveloped.
JR East took over the station on 1 April 1987. On 30 March 1990 the Keio Sagamihara Line was extended here from Minami-Osawa, and Keio's first automatic ticket gates opened at this station. Suica could be used from 18 November 2001. JR East's station building Ajinoshokusaikan Hashimoto opened on 6 March 2003. Keio Liner trains started on 22 February 2018, ending here on the down line.
Smart platform doors began on platforms 1 and 3 on 3 June 2021, and on platform 2 on 2 December 2025. In March 2022 the timetable change ended morning and evening Sagami Line trains into Hachioji, and trains to Hachioji from platform 5.
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