Sendagaya Station (千駄ケ谷駅) is a ground-level station in Shibuya, Tokyo. JR East runs it on the Chūō–Sōbu Line (Local). It opened on 21 August 1904.
History
Sendagaya Station opened on 21 August 1904 as a station of the Kōbu Railway (甲武鉄道), for passengers only at first. On 1 October 1906 the Kōbu Railway was nationalised, and the station came under the Ministry of Communications. On 12 October 1909 the station came under the Chūō East Line, later the Chūō Line. On 20 December 1914 luggage handling began.
A second station building was completed in 1924. On 18 May 1945 air raids on Tokyo burned the station building. A temporary wooden building was put up in December 1945. On 1 June 1949 the Japanese National Railways was formed. On 15 July 1949 luggage handling ended. On 2 April 1956 the station building was rebuilt with precast concrete blocks, and the station was named a model station. In January 1958 the station was rebuilt for the Asian Games.
In September 1964 the station was rebuilt for the Tokyo Olympics, and a temporary platform was added. In July 1976 a Midori no Madoguchi ticket office opened. In December 1980 shogi piece sculptures, donated by the Japan Shogi Association, were placed on the platform. On 23 October 1986 spectators leaving the athletics stadium at the National Stadium rushed toward the ticket gates, and a crowd accident happened. Many people were hurt. On 1 April 1987 the station became a station of JR East. On 2 June 1990 automatic ticket gates were introduced.
In March 1998 escalators came into use. On 18 November 2001 Suica became usable. On 9 March 2007 the Midori no Madoguchi closed. In April 2009 the whole station became non-smoking. In September 2012 lifts came into use.
On 18 September 2016 the station began using a temporary building while the station was renovated for the Tokyo Olympics. From 1 February 2019 the station was unstaffed early in the morning, under the remote station operation system (now the customer support call system). On 27 October 2019 the new station building came into use. On 22 March 2020 the platform for trains toward Shinjuku was moved to a new platform. On 13 June 2020 platform doors came into use. On 1 October 2025 JR East started its Eki-net Q Ticket service (えきねっとQチケ).
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