Inuboh Station

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Inuboh Station
犬吠駅
Inuboh Station station forecourt, August 2012
Location
Prefecture Chiba
(See other stations in Chiba)
City Chōshi
Neighborhood etc. 9591-1 Inubōzaki
Postal code288-0012
(in Japanese)千葉県銚子市犬吠埼9591-1
History
Year opened 1935
Former name Tōdaimae Station
Present name since 1941
Rail services
Operator(s) Chōshi Electric Railway
Line(s) Chōshi Electric Railway Line
Statistics 238 passengers/day (FY2008)[1]

Inuboh Station (犬吠駅 Inubō-eki) is a railway station on the Chōshi Electric Railway Line in Chōshi, Chiba, Japan.[2]

Lines

Inuboh Station is served by the Chōshi Electric Railway Line from Chōshi to Tokawa. It is located between Kimigahama and Tokawa stations, and is a distance of 5.5 rail km from Chōshi Station.[2]

Station layout

The station is staffed during the daytime, and consists of one side platform serving a single track.[2] Nure senbei (moist senbei rice crackers) are made and sold inside the large Portuguese-style station building.[3]

Former Choshi Electric Railway DeHa 501 EMU car was sectioned and grounded in front of the station together with former Sagami Railway 2000 series EMU car MoNi 2022. These were used as shop and restaurant facilities until they were cut up on-site in July 2012 due to their increasingly poor structural condition.[4][5]

  • Former DeHa 501 car (left) and Sagami Railway MoNi 2022 car (right) in front of the station, November 2009

  • View of the platforms looking southward toward Tokawa, September 2012

History

Site of the original Inuboh Station, now used for storing sleepers, January 2012

Inuboh Station was first opened on 5 July 1923 at a location 5.9 km from Chōshi Station and 400 m south of the location of the present-day Inuboh Station.[1] On 21 June 1935, a new temporary station opened at the present-day station of Inuboh Station, named Tōdaimae Station (燈台前駅, lit. "lighthouse front"). This became a full-time station from 14 August 1935. With the opening of Tōdaimae Station, passenger usage of the original Inuboh Station dropped from an average of 30 passengers daily in 1930 to an average of just 13 passengers daily. The original Inuboh Station closed from 15 November 1941, from which date Tōdaimae Station was renamed Inuboh.[1] The original station structure included a roof extending over the platform, but this was damaged by a typhoon in September 1948, and not replaced.[1] A new Portuguese-style station building was completed in December 1990 with a large forecourt area for special events.[6][7]

Surrounding area

Inubōsaki Lighthouse, February 2008
  • Inubōsaki Lighthouse
  • Inubōsaki Marine Park
  • Horizon Observatory (地球の丸く見える丘展望館 Chikyū-no-maruku-mieru Oka tenbōkan)[8]

Inubōsaki Onsen

Since 1996, a number of hotels in the vicinity started boring for onsen hot springs.

  • Inubōsaki Keisei Hotel (犬吠埼京成ホテル)[9]
  • Grand Hotel Isoya (グランドホテル磯屋) (closed 20 April 2012)[10]
  • Inubōsaki Kankō Hotel (犬吠埼観光ホテル)
  • Inubōsaki Royal Hotel (犬吠埼ロイヤルホテル)
  • Hotel New Daishin (ホテルニュー大新)
  • Gyōkeikan (ぎょうけい館)
  • Ocean Spa Taiyou no Sato (オーシャンスパ犬吠埼太陽の里)[11]

Adjacent stations

« Service »
Chōshi Electric Railway Line
Kimigahama Tokawa

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Shirato, Sadao (June 2011). 銚子電気鉄道（上） [Choshi Electric Railway Volume One]. Japan: Neko Publishing Co., Ltd. p. 32. ISBN 978-4-7770-5309-4. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Terada, Hirokazu (July 2002). データブック日本の私鉄 [Databook: Japan's Private Railways]. Japan: Neko Publishing. p. 193. ISBN 4-87366-874-3. 
  3. ↑ ローカル鉄道途中下車の旅 [Local Railway All-stations Journeys]. Japan: Seibido Publishing. 1998. p. 124–127. ISBN 4-415-09308-6. 
  4. ↑ Satō, Toshio (December 2009). "銚子電鉄の電車たちを訪ねて" [Visiting the trains of the Chōshi Electric Railway]. Japan Railfan Magazine (in Japanese) (Japan: Koyusha Co., Ltd.) 49 (584): p.92–96. 
  5. ↑ "デハ501、元相模鉄道モニ2022 解体" [DeHa 501 and former Sotetsu MoNi 2022 cut up]. RM News (in Japanese). Japan: Neko Publishing Co., Ltd. 26 July 2012. Retrieved 12 August 2012. 
  6. ↑ "銚子電鉄の概要" [Choshi Electric Railway Outline] (in Japanese). Choshi Electric Railway. Retrieved 1 December 2010. 
  7. ↑ "メルヘン駅舎（各駅案内）" [Fairy tale station buildings (Station information)] (in Japanese). Choshi Electric Railway. Retrieved 1 December 2010. 
  8. ↑ "地球の丸く見える丘展望館" [Horizon Observatory] (in Japanese). Japan: Choshi Sightseeing Association. Retrieved 28 August 2012. 
  9. ↑ "犬吠埼京成ホテル" [Inubohsaki Keisei Hotel] (in Japanese). Japan: Inubousaki Keisei Hotel. Retrieved 8 January 2012. 
  10. ↑ "グランドホテル磯屋" [Grand Hotel Isoya] (in Japanese). Japan: Grand Hotel Isoya. Retrieved 9 July 2012. 
  11. ↑ "Ocean Spa Taiyou no Sato official website" (in Japanese). Japan: Yarita Inc. Retrieved 9 September 2011. 

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