History
Nishi-Kawagoe Station opened on 1940-07-22 with the inauguration of the Kawagoe Line, at Ōaza Ogaya in Kawagoe City, Saitama. It became a contracted-operation station of the Nihon Kotsu Kanko Sha on 1965-06-01, and when parcel handling ended on 1970-10-01 the station became unstaffed. With the JNR privatisation on 1987-04-01 it passed to JR East. The station building was rebuilt in March 1999, and around the same time operations were transferred to JR East Stationservices under contract. Suica IC service became available on 2001-11-18, and the automated announcement system was renewed on 2017-12-02. Staff are not present in the early morning (before 07:00) or at night, when the station building is closed and passengers boarding then must take a boarding-station certificate.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Nishi-Kawagoe is the least-used station on the Kawagoe Line according to JR East's most recent fiscal-year tally.