All services, (TJ Liner, Rapid Express, Rapid, Express, Semi express, Local) stop at this station. During the daytime, the station is served by eight trains per hour in each direction on the Tojo Line, and by four trains per hour to Ogose on the Ogose Line.[3]
Station layout
The south entrance with escalators and lift, January 2012The elevated station concourse, April 2011
The station consists of two sets of island platforms numbered from south to north. From 2010, a new elevated station building provided a central set of ticket gates, replacing the previous exits on the north and south sides.
A siding on the north side of the station is used for storing track maintenance machines. A stabling track for Ogose Line trains lies to the east of the station, next to the permanent way depot.[4] This was created in 2008.
The Ogose Line platforms (1 and 2) are 4 cars long, and the Tojo Line platforms (3 and 4) are 10 cars long.
View of the station building and Ogose Line platforms 1/2, from platforms 3/4, April 2011
History
The station first opened on 27 October 1916, named Sakado-machi Station (坂戸町駅), coinciding with the extension of the Tojo Railway from Kawagoe. At the time of opening, the journey time from Ikebukuro was approximately 1 hour 40 minutes (compared to 45 minutes by express in 2008).[5] The Ogose Line was opened from Sakado Station on 17 February 1932, initially as a freight line as far as Morido (森戸). The Ogose Line was extended from Morido to Ogose on 16 December 1934, from which date passenger service commenced.[2]
From the 1920s, a track continued due westward to the Komagawa River for transporting gravel. This operated until the 1960s. The track maintenance storage track stub to the west of the station, between the Tojo Line and Ogose Line tracks is the truncated remainder of this former line.[6]
The station was renamed Sakado on 1 September 1976 when Sakado became a city.[5] In 1986, the locomotive depot at the east end of the station was closed, although the sheds remain to this day, used as a track maintenance depot.
A class ED5010 electric locomotive and Ogose Line 7800 series EMU at Sakado Station, April 1977
View of the station from the storage line stub formerly a gravel line to the Komagawa River, February 2011
The Ogose Line storage siding and track maintenance depot to the east of the station, June 2008
Mirrors and platform edge sensors were added to the Ogose Line platforms in 2008 ahead of the start of driver-only operation from June 2008.
Work started in 2009 to rebuild the station with an elevated concourse providing a link between the north and south sides of the station. Rebuilding was completed in April 2011.
The south entrance in February 2009 before rebuilding
The north entrance in August 2009 before rebuilding
The main station footbridge in February 2009 before demolition and rebuilding
The platforms in September 2008
The toilets and ticket barriers on the south side in February 2009 before rebuilding
The station toilets on the north side in February 2009 before rebuilding
The former Bunmeido Castella shop on the north side of the station in February 2009 before rebuilding
From 17 March 2012, station numbering was introduced on the Tōbu Tōjō Line, with Sakado Station becoming "TJ-26".[7]
The north side of the station is served by the "Sakacchi Bus" (Ōya Line) and "Sakacchi Wagon" (Nissai Line) community minibus services operated by the city of Sakado.[15] The south side is served by the "Sakacchi Bus" (Tsurumai Line) and "Sakacchi Wagon" (Shigaichi Line) community minibus services.[15]
The following long-distance express bus services operate from the south side of the station.
^ abTerada, Hirokazu (19 January 2013). データブック日本の私鉄 [Databook: Japan's Private Railways]. Japan: Neko Publishing. p. 224. ISBN978-4-7770-1336-4.
^ abTobu Tojo Line Timetable, published March 2016
^Kawashima, Ryozo (February 2011). 日本の鉄道 中部ライン 全線・全駅・全配線 第１１巻 埼玉南部・東京多摩北部 [Railways of Japan - Chubu Line - Lines/Stations/Track plans - Vol 11 Southern Saitama and Northern Tama Tokyo]. Japan: Kodansha. pp. 64–68. ISBN978-4-06-270071-9.
^ abYamamoto, Tomoyuki (October 2008). 東武東上線の神話時代（１）. Japan Railfan Magazine. Vol. 48, no. 570. pp. 126–131.
^Kuma, H. (March 2008). 坂戸の砂利線 [Sakado Gravel Line]. Rail & Bikes (in Japanese). Japan. Retrieved 8 April 2011.
^「東武スカイツリーライン」誕生！ あわせて駅ナンバリングを導入し、よりわかりやすくご案内します [Tobu Sky Tree Line created! Station numbering to be introduced at same time] (PDF). Tobu News (in Japanese). Tobu Railway. 9 February 2012. Retrieved 21 March 2012.
^"2023年3月18日（土）ダイヤ改正に係る各列車の時刻変更について" [March 18, 2023 (Saturday) Timetable change for each train due to timetable revision]. Tobu Railway. Archived from the original on 14 March 2023. Retrieved 28 May 2023. 羽沢横浜国大～新横浜～日吉駅間の開業に合わせ、東上線から日吉駅・新横浜駅を経由して海老名駅・湘南台駅までの直通運転を開始します。 [In conjunction with the opening of the Hazawa yokohama-kokudai - Shin-Yokohama - Hiyoshi line, we will start direct operation from the Tojo Line to Ebina Station and Shonandai Station via Hiyoshi Station and Shin-Yokohama Station.]
^駅情報（乗降人員） [Station information: Passenger figures] (in Japanese). Japan: Tobu Railway. 2021. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
^ abcdefSawauchi, Kazuaki (October 2013). 東武鉄道東上線の歴史過程 [History of the Tobu Tojo Line]. The Railway Pictorial (in Japanese). Japan: Denkisha Kenkyūkai. 63 (880): 18.
^駅情報（乗降人員） [Station information: Passenger figures] (in Japanese). Japan: Tobu Railway. 2005. Archived from the original on 5 April 2012. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
^駅情報（乗降人員） [Station information: Passenger figures] (in Japanese). Japan: Tobu Railway. 2010. Archived from the original on 23 August 2013. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
^駅情報（乗降人員） [Station information: Passenger figures] (in Japanese). Japan: Tobu Railway. 2015. Archived from the original on 25 April 2014. Retrieved 13 June 2016.
^ abさかっちバス・さかっちワゴン時刻表 [Sakacchi Bus & Sakacchi Wagon Timetable] (PDF) (in Japanese). Japan: City of Sakado. 1 November 2013. p. 2. Archived from the original(PDF) on 15 December 2013. Retrieved 15 December 2013.
^坂戸駅南口・川越駅西口－成田空港 直行バス [Sakado/Kawagoe - Narita Airport Direct Bus]. Tobu Bus Online (in Japanese). Japan: Tobu Bus Co., Ltd. Retrieved 18 May 2012.
^籠原駅・熊谷・森林公園駅・坂戸駅⇔羽田空港 [Kagohara/Kumagaya/Shinrinkoen/Sakado - Haneda Airport]. Airport Limousine (in Japanese). Japan: Airport Transport Service Co., Ltd. Retrieved 18 May 2012.
^大阪・京都←→川越・坂戸・熊谷（ウイングライナー） [Osaka/Kyoto - Kawagoe/Sakado/Kumagaya] (in Japanese). Japan: Kintetsu Bus Co., Ltd. Retrieved 18 May 2012.
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