History
Tōbu-Takezawa Station opened on 23 July 1932 as simply "Takezawa Station" on the Tōbu Tōjō Line, 67.1 km from the line's Tokyo terminus at Ikebukuro. When the Japanese National Railways Hachikō Line opened a separate Takezawa Station roughly 500 m away in October 1934, Tōbu renamed its stop Tōbu-Takezawa on 1 July 1934 to avoid the collision. Station numbering was rolled out on the Tōjō Line on 17 March 2012, giving the station the identifier TJ-34. The stop sits in the town of Ogawa, Saitama, and is served during the day by two local trains an hour in each direction between Ogawamachi and Yorii; there is no through service to Ikebukuro. In fiscal 2019 daily ridership averaged 877 passengers.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Tōbu actually got there first — its station opened in July 1932 as plain Takezawa, and was forced to add the "Tōbu-" prefix two years later when JNR's Hachikō Line built its own Takezawa Station 500 m down the road.