Wakoshi

Weekday departures: 302/day · Sat & holiday departures: 273/day

First / last train (weekday): 5:00 / 23:55

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (22)

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

• Yurakucho-Ikebukuro Line: Chikatetsu-narimasu ⇄ Kotake-mukaihara

Wakōshi Station opened on 1 February 1934 as Niikura Station on the Tōjō Railway, with the name initially written in hiragana and respelled in kanji from 12 July of the same year. The army built a cadet school and arms factories nearby from 1937, and after the war US occupation forces took over the sites as Camp Drake, leaving the area a hybrid of military and industrial uses. The station was renamed Yamato-machi on 1 October 1951 and again to Wakōshi on 20 December 1970 to reflect the new city name. Tokyo Metro Yūrakuchō Line through-service began on 25 August 1987, and Fukutoshin Line through-service followed on 14 June 2008.

It is the only Tokyo Metro station that lies outside Tokyo Metropolis: it sits in Saitama Prefecture and is at once the westernmost and northernmost station in the entire Tokyo Metro network.