Motoyawata

Weekday departures: 1,018/day · Sat & holiday departures: 586/day

First / last train (weekday): 0:09 / 24:50

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (68)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map.

• Shinjuku Line: Shinozaki
• Sōbu Main Line: Ichikawa ⇄ Shimosa-Nakayama

Motoyawata Station opened on 1 September 1935 as a Sōbu Main Line stop in present-day Ichikawa, Chiba — its name distinguishing it from the homonymous Yawata station in Fukuoka. Parcel handling ceased on 1 April 1969 and a Midori-no-Madoguchi ticket office opened on 13 April 1979. Control passed to JR East at JNR's breakup on 1 April 1987. The Toei Shinjuku Line was extended to Motoyawata on 19 March 1989, initially using a 55 m provisional platform, with full-length subway platforms and an underground passage to nearby Keisei Yawata opening on 28 March 1991. JR Suica acceptance began on 18 November 2001, and platform-edge doors were installed on the Toei platform on 28 April 2018.

Motoyawata is the only station on the entire Toei Subway network that lies outside Tokyo — and the only place outside the metropolis where the Tokyo Silver Pass and other Toei-only tickets are accepted and sold.