History
Minowabashi Station (SA 01) is the eastern terminus of the Tokyo Toden Arakawa Line in Minami-senju 1-chōme, Arakawa, Tokyo, set just west of National Route 4 (Nikkō Kaidō). Its lineage goes back to a Tokyo Tramway 'Sanwa-bashi' stop opened in 1911 on Nikkō Kaidō; the Ōji Electric Tramway added a separate stop on 1 April 1913. The two coexisted, unconnected by track, until the Nikkō-Kaidō tram routes were abolished in 1969. In 1978 the layout was reorganised so a single track flanked by separate boarding and alighting platforms — trains discharge passengers, move forward to the second platform, then board passengers. It was selected as one of the 'Top 100 Kanto Stations' in 1997 ('the only Tokyo tram stop where roses bloom in spring'), and the retro façade was renewed on 26 May 2007 alongside the Toden 9000-series rollout.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
Minowabashi was selected as a 'Top 100 Kanto Station' in 1997 — the citation noted it as the only tram stop in central Tokyo where roses bloom in spring. The Toei building flanking the entrance is still locally known as 'Ōden Biru', after the Ōji Electric Tramway that built it.