Sōbudai-mae Station
Lines. Sōbudai-mae Station is served by Odakyu Odawara Line, and is located 36.9 km from the line's Tokyo terminal at Shinjuku Station. It is the closest station to the US Army's Camp Zama facility and is close to the border of Zama with the city of Sagamihara. Station layout. Sōbudai-mae Station has two island platforms and four tracks, connected to the station building by footbridges. The station building is elevated, and is located above the tracks and platforms. History. Sōbudai-mae Station opened on April 1, 1927 as . With the opening of the  nearby Imperial Japanese Army Academy ("Rikugun Shikan Gakkō"), the station was renamed on June 1, 1937. However, as part of the counter-intelligence movement to eliminate the names of military facilities from maps, the station was renamed Sōbudai-mae Station on January 1, 1941. Passenger statistics. In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 40,324 passengers daily. The passenger figures for previous years are as shown below.