History
Kawamata Station first opened on 23 April 1903 as the temporary terminus of the Tobu Railway's extension from Kazo, on the right (Saitama) bank of the Tone River. With the completion of the Tone River bridge on 27 August 1907 and the further extension to Ashikagamachi (today Ashikagashi) Station, the station was relocated to the left (Gunma) bank at its present site. Freight operations ended on 30 September 1997, station numbering TI 08 was introduced on 17 March 2012, and on 23 January 2016 an elevated station building was completed and an east exit opened.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Although Kawamata is in Meiwa, naturalist novelist Katai Tayama's 1908 essay "Again on the wild grass field" set its scenes at the original Tone-riverbank Kawamata site occupied between 1903 and 1907.