History
Yoshikawaminami Station opened on 17 March 2012 as a Musashino Line stop between Yoshikawa and Shim-Misato, built on land formerly occupied by the Musashino marshalling yard. It was a petition station, championed by Yoshikawa City, with the project formally agreed in December 2007. The name was selected from 131 public submissions and finalised in January 2010. JR East and Yoshikawa City split a construction budget of roughly 7.168 billion yen, with the city contributing 4.36 billion. Station-originating Nishi-Funabashi-bound services began in March 2015, and Tokyo-bound originating services followed in fiscal 2019.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Although the station is one of the youngest on the Musashino Line, the city of Yoshikawa had been reserving land for a station here since the 1950s when Oi Village (now Fujimino City) lobbied unsuccessfully for a stop in its territory.