Kita-Asaka Station
Lines. Kita-Asaka Station is served by the orbital Musashino Line from to and . It is located adjacent and at right angles to Asakadai Station on the Tobu Tojo Line to in Tokyo. The station is located 22.8 kilometers from Fuchūhommachi Station. Station layout. The station consists of an elevated island platform serving two tracks. The station has a "Midori no Madoguchi" staffed ticket office. The station has toilet facilities located on the mezzanine level, and both escalator and lift access from the ground level entrance to the elevated platform. Universal access toilets are located outside the  station. History. The station opened on 1 April 1973. With the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR East. In April 2014, work started to extend the platform by approximately to the east (toward Nishi-Urawa) to allow the train stopping positions to be offset by two car lengths on either side and alleviate crowding on the platform during busy periods. Costing approximately 200 million yen, work was scheduled to be completed around December 2014. Passenger statistics. In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 70,577 passengers daily (boarding  passengers only), making it the third busiest station on the Musashino Line after and . The passenger figures (boarding passengers only) for previous years are as shown below. Bus services. Buses from in front of the station are operated by Tobu Bus, Kokusai Kogyo (KKJ), as well as "Wakuwaku" community bus services operated by the city of Asaka.