History
Nishigahara-yonchōme Station (SA 19) is a Toden Arakawa Line tram stop in Nishi-gahara 4-chōme, Kita-ku, Tokyo. It opened on 20 August 1911 as Takinogawa Station with the original Ōji Electric Tramway between Asukayama-ue (now Asukayama) and Ōtsuka (now Ōtsuka-eki-mae). On 1 February 1942 it became part of the Tokyo City Tramway's Takinogawa Line (today the Arakawa Line). The Takinogawa Line was suspended in 1944 and resumed on 10 July 1946; the stop was renamed Nishi-gahara-yonchōme in 1953.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
The stop's address uses the standard kanji 'ke' (ケ) for the place name (西ケ原四丁目), but Tokyo's Transportation Bureau styles the station name with the smaller kanji 'ke' (ヶ) (西ヶ原四丁目) — a minor official typographical mismatch that the article explicitly notes.