Chōshi Station


Chōshi Station is a railway station in Chōshi, Chiba, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company and also used by the private railway operator Choshi Electric Railway.

Lines

Chōshi Station is the eastern terminal station of the Sōbu Main Line and serves some through trains on the Narita Line to and. It is from the western terminus of the Sōbu Main Line at Tokyo Station. It also forms the terminus of the privately operated Chōshi Electric Railway Line to.

Station layout

The JR East station facilities consist of one side platform and one island platform serving three tracks. A bay platform is located between the JR platforms 2 and 3 for Choshi Electric Railway trains. The station has a "Midori no Madoguchi" staffed ticket office.

Platforms

Adjacent stations

History

Chōshi Station opened on 1 June 1897 as a station on the Sōbu Railway. On 1 September 1907, the Sōbu Railway was nationalized, becoming part of the Japanese Government Railway.
The Chōshi Electric Railway Line from Choshi to opened on 5 July 1923, using the trackbed and infrastructure of the earlier Chōshi Sightseeing Railway, which operated between Chōshi and from December 1913 to November 1917.
The original station building was replaced by a new two-storey wood-frame-and-mortar building in 1936. An additional platform was added at the same time, and a new underground passage was opened linking the new platform. The 1936 station building lasted only nine years, as it was destroyed in 1945 by fire during World War II. The third-generation station building was completed in January 1948, and a further platform was added at the same time, creating the three-platform arrangement that continues to this day.
After World War II, JGR became the Japanese National Railways. Scheduled freight operations were suspended from 31 March 1978. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987.
A roof was added to the entrance to the Choshi Electric Railway platform in December 1974, and this was replaced by the present-day Dutch-style building in November 1990.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2016, the JR East station was used by an average of 3,264 passengers daily. The passenger figures for previous years are as shown below.
Fiscal yearDaily averageDaily average
Fiscal yearJR EastChoshi Electric Railway
20004,174
20014,055
20023,868
20033,768
20043,743
20053,693
20063,605
20073,481935
20083,324889
20093,249795
20103,352673
20113,366
20123,395
20163,264

Surrounding area

The following long-distance buses operate from Choshi Station.