Mitaka Station (三鷹駅) is in Mitaka, Tokyo. East Japan Railway Company runs it on the Chūō Line (Rapid) and the Chūō–Sōbu Line (Local). It began as a signal stop in 1929 and became a station in 1930.
History
The Railway Ministry opened a temporary signal stop at Mitaka on 26 January 1929. In June 1929, a Mitaka branch of the Nakano railcar shed was set up, and in September it became the Mitaka railcar depot. On 1 September 1929, the signal station moved to a new site. Mitaka became a station on 25 June 1930, at first with a south exit only. A west exit, the Musashino exit, opened in 1941.
The Musashino Stadium Line, a branch of the Chūō Line, opened from here on 14 April 1951. It was used for only a short time and was closed on 1 November 1959. Japanese National Railways was formed on 1 June 1949, before the branch opened.
Through services and transit changes ran from 1969 to 2006. Through trains from Ogikubo and the Tōzai Line reached Mitaka in April 1969, as part of quadruple-track works. The station building was raised as an elevated structure on 6 April 1969. Luggage handling ended on 14 March 1985. On 1 April 1987, the station passed to JR East. Automatic ticket gates were installed on 7 July 1992. The south exit plaza phase one and the Neo City Mitaka building were completed in 1993. The Crescent Mitaka building and the Mitaka Ronron building, now Atrévi Mitaka, were completed in 1999. Suica became usable on 18 November 2001. The south exit plaza phase two was completed in 2006.
Shops at the station were built from 2007 to 2014. The first phase of the DILA Mitaka station shops opened on 16 December 2007. The second phase opened on 29 March 2008, and the third on 29 March 2009. The fourth phase opened and the shops had their grand opening on 25 June 2009. A departure melody based on the children's song Medaka no Gakkō started on 26 June 2010. On 11 September 2014, DILA Mitaka merged into Atrévi Mitaka.
Trains and services changed from 2019 onward. On 16 March 2019, the Azusa and Kaiji limited expresses were made pass-through trains, leaving the Narita Express as the only limited express stopping here. On 14 March 2020, the Chūō Line trains that stopped here all became rapid services, and Chūō Line local trains ran through to Chiba by way of Ochanomizu all day. On 25 March 2021, a STATION DESK coworking office opened on the rapid line platform. On 16 March 2024, the Narita Express through service to the Chūō Rapid Line ended, and no limited express now stops here. Slit-frame platform doors are planned for the Chūō–Sōbu Local platforms within the current fiscal year, and for the Chūō Rapid platforms too.
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