Timetable information
Weekday departures: 412/day · Sat & holiday departures: 235/day
First / last departure (weekday): 5:20 / 24:27 (00:27 next day)
Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (38)
0:00 ─ 23:00
Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.
Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.
Adjacent stations
- JR Musashino Line: Yoshikawa (Saitama) ⇄ Shim-Misato
Location
History
Yoshikawaminami Station opened on 17 March 2012 as a Musashino Line stop between Yoshikawa and Shin-Misato, built on land formerly occupied by the Musashino marshalling yard. It was a petition station, championed by Yoshikawa City, with the project formally agreed in December 2007. The name was selected from 131 public submissions and finalised in January 2010. JR East and Yoshikawa City split a construction budget of roughly 7.168 billion yen, with the city contributing 4.36 billion. Station-originating Nishi-Funabashi-bound services began in March 2015, and Tokyo-bound originating services followed in fiscal 2019.
Notes
Yoshikawaminami is the newest station on the Musashino Line, the first added in the four years since Koshigaya Laketown. JR East had forecast an average of 23,000 passengers a day within five years of opening; in fiscal 2019 the figure was 5,523, and the station remains the line's least-used and its only one below 10,000 daily, although ridership has climbed steadily as the surrounding area is developed.
Sources
- Wikipedia (English) (opens in a new tab)
- Wikipedia (日本語) (opens in a new tab)
- Photo: Mister0124 · CC BY-SA 4.0 (opens in a new tab) · Wikimedia Commons (opens in a new tab)
Last updated: 2026-05-18