History
Sagamahara Station was opened on April 4, 1941 as a station on the Japanese Government Railway (JGR). The JGR became the Japanese National Railways (JNR) after World War II. With the privatization of JNR on April 1, 1987, the station came under the operational control of JR East. A new station building was completed in October 1996.
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