Station

Kita-Fuchu

北府中

Kita-Fuchu
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Train service

Weekday departures: 397/day · Sat & holiday departures: 232/day

First / last train (weekday): 5:00 / 24:09

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (33)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map.

Adjacent stations

Location

History

Kita-Fuchū Station is a JR East Musashino Line stop in Fuchū city, Tokyo, 1.7 km from the Fuchū-Hommachi terminus and numbered JM 34. Its origins lie in the Tokyo Gravel Railway, a freight branch from Kokubunji opened in 1910; that became the Chūō Main Line's Shimogawara freight branch in 1920. After wartime worker shuttles ran here without formal status, a provisional halt at Fujimi opened on 21 January 1949, was downgraded to a signal box in 1952, then re-promoted to Kita-Fuchū Station on 1 September 1956. The Shimogawara branch was absorbed into the Musashino Line on 1 April 1973, freight ceased in 1982, and the station passed to JR East at JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987.

Notes

Sidings west of the station run into the adjacent Toshiba Fuchū plant, where finished electric locomotives are commissioned and shipped out — EF65 locomotives held there for component testing are frequently visible from passing Musashino Line trains.

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