History
Itakura Tōyōdai-mae Station opened on 25 March 1997 as a request station, the newest stop on the Tobu Nikkō Line. The line had previously bypassed Gunma Prefecture, and the new station was built to serve the Itakura campus of Toyo University and the surrounding new town development. From its opening it was a stop on the operator's Asakusa-Nikkō rapid trains, and from 16 March 2013 the morning down Kegon 1 limited express began calling, making it a limited-express stop. Station numbering TN 07 was introduced on 17 March 2012; from April 2017 the daytime Liberty Kegon series replaced the rapid services.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Both adjoining stops are in different prefectures (Saitama and Tochigi), making Itakura Tōyōdai-mae the centre of a three-station run on the Nikkō Line in which every consecutive stop lies in a different prefecture.