History
Kita-Kamakura Station opened 20 May 1927 as a station on the Japanese Government Railways (JGR), the pre-war predecessor to the Japanese National Railways (JNR) to serve the Yokosuka Naval Arsenal and related Imperial Japanese Navy facilities at Yokosuka. It was initially a temporary stop, in operation from the months of May through October, but was upgraded to a full station on October 1, 1930, at which time the present station building was completed. The station came under the management of JR East upon the privatization of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) on April 1, 1987.
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