Wakōshi Station is served by the Tōbu Tōjō Line from Ikebukuro to Kawagoe and Ogawamachi in Saitama Prefecture. It also forms the northern terminus of the Tokyo Metro Yurakucho Line and Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin Line, with some trains continuing northward on the Tobu Tojo Line to Shiki and Kawagoeshi. Trains continuing onto the Tobu Tojo Line from Tokyo Metro lines all change drivers here: Tobu Railway drivers take over trains from Tokyo and Tokyo Metro drivers take over trains towards Tokyo. Located between Narimasu and Asaka stations, it is 12.5 km from the Ikebukuro terminus.[1]
Station layout
The station consists of two island platforms serving four tracks. The two platforms, 2 and 3, used by Tokyo Metro services were equipped with chest-high platform edge doors in April 2012, with operation commencing in July 2012.[2] Similar platform edge doors were installed on the Tōbu platforms, 1 and 4, in February 2016, and scheduled to be brought into operation from 26 March.[3]
View from platforms 3/4, looking toward Ikebukuro, October 2012
Track layout of Wakoshi station
History
The station opened on February 1, 1934, as Niikura Station (にいくら駅) on the Tōjō Railway Line.[4] Though originally written in hiragana, the station name was written in kanji (新倉駅) from July 21, 1934 onwards.[4] On October 1, 1951, the station was renamed Yamato-machi Station (大和町駅).[4] On December 20, 1970, it was renamed Wakōshi Station.
Fukutoshin Line services started on June 14, 2008.[5]
From March 17, 2012, station numbering was introduced on the Tōbu Tōjō Line, with Wakōshi Station becoming "TJ-11".[6]
Chest-height platform edge doors were added to platforms 2 and 3 in April 2012, with operation commencing in July 2012.[2]
In fiscal 2019, the Tōbu portion of the station was used by an average of 180,819 passengers daily.[10] The Tokyo Metro portion of the station was used by an average of 192,132 passengers daily.[11]
^Terada, Hirokazu (July 2002). データブック日本の私鉄 [Databook: Japan's Private Railways]. Japan: Neko Publishing. p. 200. ISBN4-87366-874-3.
^ ab有楽町線:和光市駅に設置! [Installation at Yurakucho Line Wakoshi Station] (PDF) (in Japanese). Japan: Tokyo Metro. 27 March 2012. Retrieved 15 April 2012.
^東上線和光市駅4番線ホームに可動式ホーム柵が設置される [Platform edge doors installed on platform 4 of Wakoshi Station on Tojo Line]. Japan Railfan Magazine Online (in Japanese). Japan: Koyusha Co., Ltd. 15 February 2016. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
^「東武スカイツリーライン」誕生! あわせて駅ナンバリングを導入し、よりわかりやすくご案内します [Tobu Sky Tree Line created! Station numbering to be introduced at same time] (pdf). Tobu News (in Japanese). Tobu Railway. 9 February 2012. Retrieved 21 March 2012.
^"~神奈川県央地域及び横浜市西部から東京・埼玉に至る広域的な鉄道ネットワークの形成~" [-Formation of a wide-area railway network from central Kanagawa Prefecture and western Yokohama to Tokyo and Saitama-] (PDF). tokyometro.jp. 27 January 2022. Archived from the original(PDF) on 27 January 2022. Retrieved 22 March 2023.
^"2023年3月18日(土)ダイヤ改正に係る各列車の時刻変更について" [March 18, 2023 (Saturday) Timetable change for each train due to timetable revision]. Tobu Railway. Archived from the original on 2023-03-14. Retrieved 2023-05-28. 羽沢横浜国大~新横浜~日吉駅間の開業に合わせ、東上線から日吉駅・新横浜駅を経由して海老名駅・湘南台駅までの直通運転を開始します。 [In conjunction with the opening of the Hazawa yokohama-kokudai - Shin-Yokohama - Hiyoshi line, we will start direct operation from the Tojo Line to Ebina Station and Shonandai Station via Hiyoshi Station and Shin-Yokohama Station.]
^駅情報(乗降人員) [Station information: Passenger figures] (in Japanese). Japan: Tobu Railway. 2021. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
^各駅の乗降人員ランキング [Passenger ranking at each station] (in Japanese). Japan: Tokyo Metro. 2021. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
^石神井公園駅・和光市駅⇔羽田空港 [Shakujiikoen/Wakoshi – Haneda Airport]. Airport Limousine (in Japanese). Japan: Airport Transport Service Co., Ltd. Retrieved 13 January 2013.
^ ab西武 空港連絡バス [Seibu Airport Bus Links] (in Japanese). Japan: Seibu Bus Co., Ltd. Retrieved 23 November 2012.