The station keeps the name of the old Tamagawa River ferry crossing, and houses and factories line the way to the riverbank
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Yaguchinowatashi Station takes its name from the Yaguchi no Watashi ferry, which carried passengers across the Tamagawa River until 1949; the ferry stopped running, but the station name stayed. The area where the station sits, Tamagawa 1-chome and 2-chome, is a neighborhood mixing houses and factories, except right around the station itself. To the south is the Tamagawa River floodplain, with Kawasaki City on the opposite bank.
There's a Seiyu supermarket around the station, as well as the Yaguchinowatashi shopping street. Walk about 4 minutes from the station and you're in the Yaguchinowatashi shopping street.
This neighborhood covers Yaguchi 3-chome, Higashi-Yaguchi 2-chome, Tamagawa 1-chome and 2-chome, and Shin-Kamata 2-chome and 3-chome in Ota City, with a population of about 30,000 in 2020.
Daily shopping ranks 217th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, in the middle of the pack, and is the highest-ranking category for this neighborhood. Medical care and pharmacies rank 241st, also in the middle of the pack.
The station is at ground level, with a separate station building and ticket gate for each platform, so once you're inside you can't cross to the other side. The next station toward Tamagawa is Musashi-nitta, about 0.9 km away; toward Kamata, it's Kamata, about 1.3 km away.
Public transit ranks 273rd, and sidewalks rank 332nd, both toward the bottom; greenery ranks 380th, the weakest category for this neighborhood.
TidyMap ran its own estimate, taking points roughly every 40 meters within the neighborhood on the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan's flood inundation hazard map. About 96% of the points fall within the projected flood zone, with the great majority at 0.5 to 3 meters, and about 3% at 3 meters or more.
To check your own address, use Ota City's hazard map.
In 1358, Nitta Yoshioki was lured into a trap and killed at the Yaguchi no Watashi crossing of the Tamagawa River; local people built Nitta Shrine to honor him, and the shrine is in the neighboring Musashi-nitta neighborhood.
This ferry crossing, which dated back to the medieval period, kept running until the Tamagawa Ohashi Bridge was completed in 1949. The station opened while the ferry was still running: it opened in 1923 under the name Yaguchi Station, and only changed to its current name, Yaguchinowatashi Station, in 1930.
Back then, there was also a station called Michizuka Station between Yaguchinowatashi and Kamata, which remained until 1946.
Phase 1 of the Shin-Kuko Line will move the Tokyu Tamagawa Line underground from near Yaguchinowatashi Station, running underground through Kamata Station and connecting to around Keikyu Kamata Station.
As of October 2025, project approval has already been granted; it will still take several years to complete procedures such as urban planning decisions before construction begins, and the target opening is the first half of the Reiwa 20s.
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Hospitals with inpatient beds (2020 data), public elementary and junior high schools whose catchment covers this area, high schools and universities within 1 km, stations, parks of 1 ha or more, and large shopping malls and department stores. Many Tokyo junior high students attend private schools, so junior high catchments are only a guide.
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