Kazusa-Ichinomiya Station

Kazusa-Ichinomiya Station 上総一ノ宮駅
Kazusa-Ichinomiya Station, September 2020
General information
Location	Ichinomiya 2640, Ichinomiya-machi, Chōsei-gun, Chiba-ken 299-4301 Japan
Coordinates	35°22′25″N 140°21′55″E / 35.3736°N 140.3653°E / 35.3736; 140.3653
Operated by	JR East
Line(s)	■ Sotobō Line
Distance	43 kilometres (27 mi) from Chiba
Platforms	1 side + 1 island platform
Tracks	3
Connections	Bus stop
Other information
Status	Staffed (Midori no Madoguchi )
Website	Official website
History
Opened	17 April 1898; 126 years ago (1898-04-17)
Previous names	Ichinomiya (until 1917)
Passengers
FY2019	2976 daily
Services
Preceding station JR East Following station Mobara towards Tokyo Wakashio Ōhara towards Awa-Kamogawa Yatsumi (limited service) towards Soga Sotobō Line Keiyō Rapid Torami towards Katsuura Mobara towards Chiba Sotobō Line Sobū Rapid Terminus Yatsumi towards Soga or Chiba Sotobō Line Local Torami towards Awa-Kamogawa
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Kazusa-Ichinomiya Station (上総一ノ宮駅, Kazusa-Ichinomiya-eki) is a passenger railway station located in the town of Ichinomiya, Chiba Prefecture Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Kazusa-Ichinomiya Station is served by the Sotobō Line, and lies 43.0 km (26.7 mi) from the starting point of the line at Chiba Station.

The station consists of a single island platform and a single side platform serving three tracks, connected to a white-washed station building by an footbridge. The station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office.

Kazusa-Ichinomiya Station was opened on 17 April 1898 as Ichinomiya Station (一ノ宮駅, Ichinomiya-eki) on the Bōsō Railway. The line was further extended to Chiba by 13 December 1899. On 1 September 1907, the Bōsō Railway was nationalized and became part of the Japanese Government Railways, which was transformed into the Japan National Railways (JNR) after World War II. The station name was changed to the present name on 1 January 1917. Freight operations were discontinued on 1 July 1971. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the Japan National Railways on 1 April 1987.

In fiscal year 2019, the station was used by an average of 2,976 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).^[1]

• National Route 128
• Chiba Prefectural Ichinomiya Commercial High School

• List of railway stations in Japan

Media related to Kazusa-Ichinomiya Station at Wikimedia Commons

• JR East Station information (in Japanese)