History
Togashira Station opened on 26 March 1975 in the city of Toride, Ibaraki Prefecture, on the Kantō Railway Jōsō Line, 6.3 km from the line's official starting point at Toride. It was built to serve the newly developed Togashira public housing estate, and a 1976 reorganisation gave the address as Togashira 5-chōme 1-1. The single-track section between Terahara, Togashira and Minami-Moriya was double-tracked in 1982. PASMO IC-card use began on 14 March 2009, and lifts came into service on 17 September 2010. The station has two opposed side platforms in a half-elevated configuration on retaining walls, with the station building below the tracks and a single ground-level entrance on the southern, housing-estate side.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station's name preserves a local etymology: the southern part of the area held an old Tone-River boat landing known as the "Shichiri-ga-watashi" tsutō ("head of the ferry"), and the corruption of tsutō into togashira gave the locality its current name.