Tokiwadai Station (Tokyo)

[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.

The south entrance in November 2004
View of the platforms from the up (Ikebukuro) end, with the station building and north entrance on the right, February 2012
View of the platforms from the adjacent level crossing in February 2009