History
Ogawamachi Station is a joint-use station in the town of Ogawa, Saitama, shared between the East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and Tōbu Railway, with Tōbu managing the premises. The Tōbu portion opened on 5 November 1923 as part of the Tōjō Line, and the JR side—now the Hachikō Line between Komagawa and Takasaki—followed on 24 March 1934. Tōbu introduced station numbering on 17 March 2012, assigning Ogawamachi the code TJ-33. The Tōbu side has two island platforms serving four tracks, with two storage tracks separating it from the JR single-track passing loop. All daytime Tōjō Line categories—Local, Semi Express, Express, Rapid, Rapid Express, Kawagoe Limited Express and TJ Liner—stop here.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
On weekends a few F Liner services through-run from Ogawamachi all the way to Motomachi-Chūkagai in Yokohama via four operators' tracks, covering roughly 100 km without a transfer.