History
Omaeda Station opened on 7 October 1901 on the Chichibu Main Line, operated by the private Chichibu Railway. Located in the city of Fukaya, Saitama Prefecture, it sits 30.5 km from the line's eastern terminus at Hanyū and is also served by through-trains to and from the Seibu Chichibu Line. The station retains its wooden building and consists of one side platform plus an island platform, totalling two platforms and three tracks. Track 3 is a bidirectional freight loop normally bypassed by passenger services. PASMO IC card acceptance began on 12 March 2022, on which date the station was simultaneously destaffed.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Japanese announcements rendering the station name in katakana — "Tsugi wa Omaeda" — coincidentally produce a homophone for "Tsugi wa omae da" ("next is YOU"), and the line itself notes that the station is sometimes listed among Japan's curious place-name oddities for that reason.