History
Araijuku Station opened on 28 March 2001 with the inauguration of the Saitama Rapid Railway Line, the third-sector route extending the Tokyo Metro Namboku Line from Akabane-Iwabuchi into Saitama. The underground station sits 7.5 km along the 14.6 km line and was equipped from the start with an island platform and waist-height platform edge doors. PASMO support arrived on 18 March 2007, and on 1 October 2015 the operator added a sub-name referencing the nearby Kippudo confectionery. The stop principally serves a residential stretch of Kawaguchi west of National Route 122, including Kawaguchi Municipal Medical Center and several prefectural high schools.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
In 2024 it was the least-used station on the Saitama Rapid Railway Line, with about 6,230 boarding passengers per day.