Musashi-Takahagi Station (RotW)

RotW is my Railways of the Warrior project. Visiting all the Japanese train stations with Fuji in the name & the 12 castles with the original keep still standing wasn’t enough to satisfy my love of lists, so now I’m working through all the stations with Musashi in their name.

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Name in kanji : 武蔵高萩
Kanji meaning: tall bush clover
Station opened : 22nd July, 1940
Trainlines: JR Kawagoe; JR Hachiko
# Passengers daily : 3442
Distance from CityHillsAndSea HQ: 108 km
Located in: Hidaka, Saitama Prefecture

Things to Do

The station has a little lending library. Borrow a book?

If you’ve arrived at the right time of year, you could probably enjoy a walk to the south of the station beneath the cherry blossoms…

Other than that, the best I can do for you is to recommend you just take the train on through to Kawagoe.

All About Musashi Takahagi Station

Musashi-Takahagi is one of two Musashi stations in Hidaka, the other being Musashi-Yokote.

Takahagi is the more interesting in terms of architecture –

Other than the interesting lines of the building itself though – as noted above – there’s not much else to see around here.

Fortunately, Musashi-Takahagi is only a couple of stops away from a little gem of a tourist destination, Kawagoe – an olde worlde type town with many historic buildings.

Kawagoe has the nickname of Little Edo (the old name for Tokyo) because of the traditional buildings lining the streets in the old part of town. Being in Saitama, Kawagoe was part of the Musashi province, and it’s situated on the Musashino plain so … it’s not like we’re letting the team down by not spending a lot of time in Musashi-Takahagi.

I did kind of let the team down though by not spending a lot of time in Kawagoe. I was a bit taken aback by the half-term crowds so I didn’t linger for very long.

Just long enough to get some shots of the iconic Kawagoe bell-tower (which you may remember from the Saitama Coke bottle)

and some shots of ye olde worlde buildings, including one of my favourites here:

While it’s not from the Edo period, I did love this bank:

There are some more pics for your amusement in the galleries at the bottom of this post.

Station Rating

We’re going to give Musashi-Takahagi one star but it gets a bonus one for being close to Kawagoe. No, that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. Yes, it is a bit weird. Just think of it as being like the property market – the well-kept gardens bring everyone else’s house prices up.