History
Nishi-Ōmiya Station opened on 14 March 2009 on the Kawagoe Line between Nisshin and Sashiōgi, 6.3 km from Ōmiya, and is the only newly built intermediate station on the line since its opening. Local petitions for a new stop began in the late 1960s, prompted in part by Saitama Sakae High School students walking 1.5 km from Sashiōgi to class. The Urban Renaissance Agency began the Ōmiya-seibu land-readjustment project in fiscal 1998, and after Saitama's 2003 designation as an ordinance city the location was set 2.6 km west of Nisshin. The name "Nishi-Ōmiya" was decided on 7 February 2008, and the surrounding district was officially renamed Nishi-Ōmiya on 18 November 2017.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Although the line through Nishi-Ōmiya is single track, station operations and timetabling allow same-platform train crossings, the simplest configuration for a Kawagoe Line halt.