History
Hachigata Station opened on 10 July 1925 on the Tōbu Tōjō Line in Yorii, Saitama Prefecture, 73.5 km from the Ikebukuro terminus. The station name derives from the nearby ruins of Hachigata Castle. Station numbering was introduced across the Tōjō Line on 17 March 2012, when Hachigata became TJ-36. A new station building, styled to evoke the watermill house of the adjacent Saitama Museum of Rivers, opened on 21 March 2015. On 31 October 2020, with the opening of Minami-Yorii between Tōbu Takezawa and Otsumura, the station was renumbered TJ-37. It consists of a single island platform serving two tracks, connected to the trackside station building by a footbridge.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Saitama Prefectural Route 253, which connects the station forecourt to Route 30 just to the south, is the shortest prefectural road in Saitama at only 43 m in length.