History
Seibu-Yagisawa Station opened on 16 April 1927 on the Seibu Shinjuku Line in what is now Nishitōkyō, Tokyo, on the same day as neighbouring Higashi-Fushimi. The layout was rebuilt from a single island into two opposed side platforms in the late 1960s, and the bridge-style concourse and footbridge entered service in 1970. Automatic ticket gates were activated on 11 November 1992, and a barrier-free renovation completed in February 2005 installed elevators and escalators and replaced the toilets with a multi-purpose facility. A 30 June 2012 timetable revision made the station an all-stations stop during the daytime, and from 3 February 2026 the ticket counter has operated only via remote-interphone assistance.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Seibu-Yagisawa was busier than its sister station Higashi-Fushimi when both opened — 28,335 to 18,840 yearly riders in 1928 — but the relative position reversed the following year, and by 1933 Higashi-Fushimi was carrying five times as many passengers thanks to the new Inari Shrine.