History
Toyoshiki Station opened on 9 May 1911 in present-day Kashiwa, Chiba, when the Chiba Prefectural Railway extended the Noda Line from Nodamachi (today's Nodashi Station) to Kashiwa. The route was transferred to the Hokusō Railway in August 1923, renamed the Sōbu Railway in November 1929 and electrified that December. Before and during the Pacific War the station served the nearby Kashiwa military airfield. On 1 March 1944 it was absorbed into the Tōbu Railway. Double-tracking ended local crossings in 1978, and station numbering as TD-23 was introduced on 17 March 2012.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The name "Toyoshiki" — meaning "the fourth fertile (settlement)" — comes from Meiji-era development of grazing land, the fourth of thirteen reclaimed districts; sister names persist as far apart as Hatsutomi, Niwa, Mitsumata and Yachimata Stations.