[1] 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.
[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.