Motoyawata

Weekday departures: 1,018/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 586/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 4:38 / 24:50 (00:50 next day)

Busiest hour in the available data: 7:00–8:00 (68)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.

Timetable data as of 28 April 2026 to 4 May 2026: the timetables behind these figures were retrieved on different dates.

The timetable data is incomplete for some or all lines at this station, so the weekday and Sat & holiday figures are departures in the available timetable data, not totals.

Lines where the timetable data is complete: Shinjuku Line

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• Sobu Main Line: timetable covers only part of the line

• Shinjuku Line: Shinozaki
• Sobu 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.