Togashira

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Togashira Station opened on 26 March 1975 in the city of Toride, Ibaraki Prefecture, on the Kantō Railway Jōsō Line, 6.3 km from the line's official starting point at Toride. It was built to serve the newly developed Togashira public housing estate, and a 1976 reorganisation gave the address as Togashira 5-chōme 1-1. The single-track section between Terahara, Togashira and Minami-Moriya was double-tracked in 1982. PASMO IC-card use began on 14 March 2009, and lifts came into service on 17 September 2010. It is a ground-level station with two opposed side platforms, although because of the terrain the platform for track 2 is in a half-elevated configuration facing a retaining wall. The ticket gate lies beneath the tracks and is linked to both platforms by stairs and lifts, and the only entrance is on the southern, housing-estate side.

The station's name preserves a local etymology: the southern part of the area held an old Tone-River boat landing known as the "Shichiri-ga-watashi" tsutō ("head of the ferry"), and the corruption of tsutō into togashira gave the locality its current name.