History
Wado Station opened on 20 December 1899 as a temporary stop on what is now the Tobu Isesaki Line in the town of Miyashiro, Saitama. It originally stood beside the Nikko Onarimichi (today's Saitama Prefectural Route 65), down the line from the present site. Full freight handling began in October 1914 and the station was relocated to its current position on 1 April 1915. Freight service ended in 1959. Through trains from the Tokyo Metro Hanzomon Line and Tokyu Den-en-toshi Line began calling on 18 March 2006, station numbering TI-01 was applied on 17 March 2012, and two platform lifts entered service on 31 March 2016.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Despite being a stop for express trains continuing onto the Tokyo Metro Hanzomon and Tokyu Den-en-toshi lines, Wado has the lowest daily ridership of any such station on the through-running route.