History
Omocha-no-Machi Station opened on 1 April 1965 as a Tobu Railway stop on the Utsunomiya Line in Mibu, Tochigi Prefecture. The station was built to serve the adjacent Omocha-Danchi ("toy estate"), a planned industrial district housing toy manufacturers that had moved out of central Tokyo, and the unusually whimsical station name comes directly from the estate. On 17 March 2012, station numbering was introduced across the Tobu network and Omocha-no-Machi was assigned TN-35. The station consists of a single island platform connected to the station building by an underground passageway, and sits 12.6 km from the line's starting point at Shin-Tochigi.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station name — "Toy Town Station" — was inherited from the surrounding industrial estate, which was developed in the 1960s to consolidate toy factories relocating from central Tokyo.