Tokiwadai Station is served by the Tobu Tojo Line from Ikebukuro in Tokyo. Located between Naka-Itabashi and Kami-Itabashi, it is 4.7 km from the Tokyo terminus at Ikebukuro Station.[2] Only "Local" (all-stations) services stop at this station, with eight trains per hour in each direction during the daytime.[3]
Station layout
The south entrance in November 2004View of the platforms from the up (Ikebukuro) end, with the station building and north entrance on the right, February 2012View of the platforms from the adjacent level crossing in February 2009
The station consists of a single island platform serving two tracks. Entrances are located on the north and south sides of the station. The station has universal access toilet facilities.[1]
The station opened on 20 October 1935 as Musashino-Tokiwa Station (武蔵野常盤駅). It was renamed Tokiwadai on 1 October 1951.[2]
From 17 March 2012, station numbering was introduced on the Tobu Tojo Line, with Tokiwadai Station becoming "TJ-06".[4]
Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2010, the station was used by an average of 46,297 passengers daily.[5]
Accidents
Tokiwadai Station suffers from a high number of suicides, due to the relatively high speed and frequency of non-stop trains passing through the station. Between 2002 and 2009, three people were killed by passing trains after jumping onto the tracks.[6]
On 6 February 2007 at around 19:30, a police officer from a nearby Kōban police box was hit by a non-stop express train near Tokiwadai Station while trying to restrain a 39-year-old woman who had rushed onto the tracks in an attempt to commit suicide. The woman survived with serious injuries, but the 53-year-old police officer, Sergeant Kunihiko Miyamoto, was left critically injured in a coma and died on 12 February.[6][7][8]
Surrounding area
Poppins Nursery School (within station building, from 1 April 2012)[9]
^「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 20 March 2012.
^駅情報（乗降人員） [Station information (Passenger statistics)] (in Japanese). Japan: Tobu Railway. Archived from the original on 1 January 2012. Retrieved 14 December 2011.
^ abSato, Yuichi (July 2011). 鉄道人身事故データブック2002-2009 [Railway Accident Data Book 2002-2009]. Japan: Tsugeshobo. p. 117. ISBN978-4-8068-0620-2.
^Walsh, Bryan (20 February 2007). "Mourning a Humble Hero". Time World. Tokyo: Time Inc. Archived from the original on 23 February 2007. Retrieved 5 February 2012.
^改札口直結！東上線ときわ台駅 駅ナカに保育施設が誕生します [New nursery facility to open next to ticket barriers at Tokiwadai Station] (PDF). Tobu News Release (in Japanese). Japan: Tobu Railway. 8 December 2011. Archived from the original(PDF) on 16 December 2011. Retrieved 13 December 2011.
^（財）日本書道美術館 [Nippon Shodo Museum] (in Japanese). Japan: Itabashi City Office. Retrieved 13 December 2011.
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Tobu Tojo Line
