History
The station opened on 1962-12-01 as Matsubara-Danchi Station, named after the adjoining Sōka Matsubara housing estate built west of the line. It was set up to serve commuters from the new estate, in step with the through-running between the Tōbu Isesaki Line and the Eidan Subway Hibiya Line that had started the previous May. In 1964 Dokkyo University, whose siting Tōbu helped to arrange, opened beside the estate. The conversion to an elevated four-track layout was completed in fiscal 1988, and the resulting bright concourse won the Sōka City Townscape Award in fiscal 1993. After Sōka Matsubara was designated a National Place of Scenic Beauty in 2014, local groups campaigned to rename the station, and on 2017-04-01 it was renamed Dokkyo-Daigaku-mae, with Sōka Matsubara as a sub-name. The roughly ¥300 million cost of the change was borne in full by Dokkyo University.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Renaming the station cost about 300 million yen and was paid in full by Dokkyo University — the first time Tobu renamed a stop at the request of locals.