History
Arakawa-shakomae Station (SA 13) is a Toden Arakawa Line tram stop in Nishi-Ogu, Arakawa-ku, Tokyo, the westernmost and northernmost stop in Arakawa Ward. It opened on 1 April 1913 as Funakata-shakomae Station with the Ōji Electric Tramway's opening between Mi-no-wa (now Mi-no-wabashi) and Asukayama-shita (now Kajiwara), and was renamed Arakawa-shakomae around the time it joined the Tokyo City Tramway on 1 February 1942. The unusual 3-platform/2-track layout has separate alighting and boarding platforms for trams heading to Mi-no-wabashi, with the depot's inbound/outbound tracks running between them.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
Adjacent to the stop is the 'Toden Omoide Hiroba' open-air museum, displaying preserved type 5500 and type 7500 trams; admission is free on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays between 10:00 and 16:00.