Sagami-Ōno Station
railway station in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Sagami-Ōno Station (Japanese: 相模大野駅, Hepburn: Sagami-Ōno-eki) is a junction passenger railway station located in the city of Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, operated by the private railway operator Odakyu Electric Railway.
Lines
Sagami-Ono Station is served by both the Odakyu Odawara Line and the Odakyu Enoshima Line. It is 32.4 km (20.1 mi) from the Tokyo terminus of the Odawara Line at Shinjuku, and is also the northern terminus of the 26.6 km (16.5 mi) Enoshima Line to Katase-Enoshima.
Station layout
The station consists of two island platforms with six tracks, connected to the station building by footbridges. The two central tracks are used for non-stop train services. The station building is part of a large shopping mall, containing an Odakyu OX supermarket, Odakyu department store, a Bic Camera discount electronics store, and the Odakyu Hotel Century Sagami-Ono.
Platforms
History
The station opened on April 1, 1938, as Tsūshin-Gakkō Station (通信学校駅), named after the nearby Imperial Japanese Army Telecommunication School (Rikugun Tsūshin-Gakkō). It was renamed Sagami-Ono on January 1, 1941, as part of the counter-intelligence movement to eliminate the names of military facilities from maps.
Station numbering was introduced in January 2014 with Sagami-Ono being assigned station number OH28.
On September 2, 2024, Alexandros' song "Wataridori" began being used as the approach melody.
“Sagami-Ōno Station” enters the record as railway station in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Sagami-Ōno, Station and railway can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1054659. Authority coordinates are 35.532, 139.438. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1938, 1941, 2014 and 2024.
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