History
Watarase Station opened on 16 December 1927. The station was made unstaffed on 22 June 2020.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Watarase has an island platform with three tracks, one of which is a siding, and its wooden station building stands on the north side of the line, connected to the platform by an underpass. The station has no automatic ticket gates, only a simple PASMO IC card reader. The disused freight area between Watarase and Tajima — formerly the Kita-Tatebayashi handling yard — now houses Tōbu Railway's Kita-Tatebayashi Demolition Yard, used since the end of freight operations in 2003 to scrap not only Tōbu's own retired stock but also vehicles brought in from other operators. The station is also the source of the surname of 'Watarase Kinu', a character in Tomytec's 'Tetsudō Musume' railway-personification figure series.