is a railway station on the

Tobu Tojo Line is a Japanese commuter railway and ''keiretsu'' holding company in the Greater Tokyo Area as well as an intercity and regional operator in the Kantō region. Excluding the Japan Railways Group companies, Tobu's rail system is the second longes ...

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, Japan, operated by the

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operator Tobu Railway.

Lines

Tokiwadai Station is served by the

from in Tokyo. Located between and , it is 4.7 km from the Tokyo terminus at Ikebukuro Station. Only "Local" (all-stations) services stop at this station, with eight trains per hour in each direction during the daytime.''Tobu Tojo Line Timetable'', published March 2016

Station layout

Tokiwadai Station platform up end 20120204

The station consists of a single

island platform An island platform (also center platform, centre platform) is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway interchange. Island platforms are popular on ...

serving two tracks. Entrances are located on the north and south sides of the station. The station has universal access toilet facilities.

Platforms

History

The station opened on 20 October 1935 as . It was renamed Tokiwadai on 1 October 1951. From 17 March 2012, station numbering was introduced on the Tobu Tojo Line, with Tokiwadai Station becoming "TJ-06".

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2010, the station was used by an average of 46,297 passengers daily.

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. 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.

Surrounding area

* Poppins Nursery School (within station building, from 1 April 2012) * Shinmei Shrine * Itabashi-ku Chuo Library * Itabashi-ku Tokiwadai Elementary School * Nippon Shodo Museum

References

External links

Tobu station information
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