History
Obusuma Station opened on 10 July 1925 on Tobu Railway's Tōjō Line, in present-day Tomita, Yorii, Saitama. Its name commemorates the former Obusuma Village in Ōsato District. The original wooden building lay east of the tracks and was reached from the platform via a footbridge, with no west-side access; rebuilding began in June 2014 and was completed on 16 July 2016, replacing the old structure with new east and west entrances linked by a free passageway. Station numbering was introduced on 17 March 2012 as TJ-35, then renumbered to TJ-36 on 31 October 2020 when Minami-Yorii Station opened between Obusuma and Tobu-Takezawa. To the east of the tracks lay sidings to a former military munitions plant and freight platforms; the west-side remnants were removed during the rebuild.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The opening scene of Yoshitarō Nomura's 1978 Shochiku film Kichiku ("The Demon") was shot at Obusuma's old station building.