Yoshikawa (Saitama)

Weekday departures: 414/day · Sat & holiday departures: 234/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:18 / 24:29 (00:29 next day)

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (39)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.

• JR Musashino Line: Koshigaya-Laketown ⇄ Yoshikawa-Minami

Yoshikawa Station opened on 1 April 1973 as a Japanese National Railways stop with the inauguration of the Musashino Line, and was one of twelve stations fitted with pilot automatic ticket gates when it opened. Operation transferred to JR East at the 1987 privatisation. The municipality of Yoshikawa-machi was elevated to Yoshikawa City on 1 April 1996, removing the last county-level municipality from the Musashino Line. Suica was introduced on 18 November 2001, reserved-seat ticket machines arrived on 17 March 2007, and the staffed Midori-no-Madoguchi window closed on 31 May 2012. The station building was completed by Konoike Construction and the platforms curve sharply on either side of the elevated structure.

A gilded statue of a catfish, a Yoshikawa local speciality, was placed in the south plaza in 1995; after thieves stripped its gold whiskers it became briefly nationally famous and the statue was fenced.