Timetable information
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Location
History
Obusuma Station opened on 10 July 1925 on Tobu Railway's Tōjō Line, in Tomita, Yorii, Saitama. Its name commemorates the former Obusuma Village in Ōsato District. The original single-storey building lay east of the tracks and was reached from the platform via a footbridge, with no west-side access; rebuilding began in June 2014 and was completed on 16 July 2016, replacing the old structure with new east and west entrances linked by a free passageway. Station numbering was introduced on 17 March 2012 as TJ-35, then renumbered to TJ-36 on 31 October 2020 when Minami-Yorii Station opened between Obusuma and Tobu-Takezawa. A freight line and the remains of a single-face platform lay on the east side of the station grounds, while the west side retained the platform remains of a dedicated siding to a former army munitions plant (now the Saitama Prefectural Environmental Improvement Centre); the west-side remnants were removed during the rebuild.
Notes
The opening scene of the 1978 Shochiku film Kichiku ("The Demon") was shot at Obusuma's old station building.
Sources
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- Wikipedia (日本語) (opens in a new tab)
- Photo: DAJF · CC BY-SA 4.0 (opens in a new tab) · Wikimedia Commons (opens in a new tab)
Last updated: 2026-05-18