History
Yoshikawa Station opened on 1 April 1973 as a Japanese National Railways stop with the inauguration of the Musashino Line, and was one of the first twelve stations in the country to host pilot automatic ticket gates. Operation transferred to JR East at the 1987 privatisation. The municipality of Yoshikawa-machi was elevated to Yoshikawa City on 1 April 1996, removing the last county-level municipality from the Musashino Line. Suica was introduced on 18 November 2001, reserved-seat ticket machines arrived on 17 March 2007, and the staffed Midori-no-Madoguchi window closed on 31 May 2012. The station building was completed by Konoike Construction and the platforms curve sharply on either side of the elevated structure.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
A gilded statue of a catfish, a Yoshikawa local speciality, was placed in the south plaza in 1995; after thieves stripped its gold whiskers it became briefly nationally famous and the statue was fenced.