History
Nishi-Kawada Station opened on 11 August 1931 when Tobu Railway brought the Utsunomiya Line into service, in what is today the Nishi-Kawada district of Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture. A spur of the Tobu Oya Line connected here from 27 December 1931, carrying Oya tuff stone from quarries to the north until passenger service ended in 1964. The platform has been kept unusually broad to handle race-day crowds for the former Utsunomiya Racecourse and visitors to the Tochigi Prefectural Sports Park. The station took the number TN-37 when Tobu introduced its line-network codes on 17 March 2012.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
During the 2022 National Sports Festival hosted by Tochigi, an autonomous-driving shuttle bus operated between Nishi-Kawada Station and the prefectural sports park.