A statue of Nitta Yoshisada looks towards Kamakura, where two railways meet below and above a terrace cliff
On the traffic circle in front of Bubaigawara Station stands a statue of the warrior Nitta Yoshisada, his face turned south toward Kamakura. In May 1333, he launched a surprise attack on the Kamakura shogunate's army on this riverbed and won a decisive victory, after which the shogunate was forced onto the defensive. The station's name also comes from this history: "Bubai" plus "kawara" (riverbed) refers to exactly this old battlefield.
Today it's a transfer station between the Keio Line and the JR Nambu Line. The JR platform runs along the base of the Tachikawa escarpment (the cliff of a river terrace), while the Keio platform crosses it at a right angle at its western end, with the station building sitting atop the cliff. Since 2013, every Keio train has stopped at this station. The old battlefield monument stands within the neighborhood, in Nittagawa Bubai Park in Bubaicho. Going by our street photos, greenery ranks 76th out of Tokyo's 199 neighborhoods, the best-performing category for this neighborhood.
The concourse sits at roughly the "1.7th floor," sandwiched between the two platform levels; the space is narrow, and it's further divided by transfer gates, making it quite crowded at peak times. Fuchu City has also listed the lack of station-front space on the north side, along with the aging north-south overpass that doesn't meet accessibility standards, as issues for this area. Also going by street photos, sidewalks rank 156th out of the 199 neighborhoods, in the lower tier. Counting supermarkets and convenience stores within walking distance of every home, daily shopping also comes in at 156th.
The area from Bubaigawara to Sekido (now part of Tama City) was a strategic point along the Kamakura-kaido road, and it became a battlefield many times during the medieval period; Bubai also had a post station along the road. In 1925, Keio's predecessor opened "Yashikibun Station" here, and it wasn't renamed Bubaigawara until 1929. The town name, Bubaicho, was once written with different characters, and its origin is unknown. One theory holds that this area was frequently hit by flooding from the Tama River, which reduced harvests, so the allotted fields were doubled.
In January 2025, Fuchu City announced a design plan for improvements around the station. It calls for building two new pedestrian-only overpasses crossing the station, one running north-south and one east-west, along with renovating the station and adding a station-front plaza on the south side. Construction is planned for fiscal years 2028 to 2036, though the city notes this may change later.
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69 blocks · Curated boundary · Data version 2026-10-12
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