History
Okegawa Station opened on 1 March 1885 as a private Nippon Railway stop in what is now the city of Okegawa, Saitama. The line was nationalised on 1 November 1906 and formally became part of the Takasaki Line under the 1909 line-naming reform. Freight handling ended on 1 May 1973 and the present overhead station building was completed in November 1982. A Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office opened in March 1986. The station became part of JR East at the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987; automatic ticket gates entered service in February 1995, and Suica IC cards became usable in November 2001.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Okegawa's bus terminal is too cramped to allow large coaches to turn around, so a dedicated turntable is installed at the bus stop to rotate them by hand.