History
Nanakōdai Station opened on 1 July 1968 on the Tōbu Noda Line, coinciding with the inauguration of the adjacent Nanakōdai depot — the line's main rolling-stock facility. A new overhead station building was placed into service on 28 February 2007, replacing the original wooden depot whose toilets and ticket window had been reached from a narrow ground-level passage. Departure melodies were introduced on 23 March 2009, and ticketing was outsourced to Tōbu Station Services that December. On 27 October 2012, the station's official address changed to reflect a land-readjustment project on the west side, and LED replacements for the west-exit station sign were installed on 11 March 2019.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The placename Nanakōdai is itself a postwar invention, coined in 1950 to fuse two pioneer-settler co-operatives — "Shichifuku" and "Kōfūdai" — whose new fields surrounded the future depot site.