Shimōsa-Tachibana Station

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Shimōsa-Tachibana Station
下総橘駅
Shimōsa-Tachibana Station building with a gate
Location
Prefecture Chiba
(See other stations in Chiba)
District Katori
Town Tōnoshō
Neighborhood etc. Ishide 1791
Postal code289 - 0612
(in Japanese)香取郡東庄町石出1791
History
Year opened 1933
Rail services
Operator(s) JR East
Line(s) Narita Line
Statistics 336 passengers/day (2006)

Shimōsa-Tachibana Station (下総橘駅 Shimōsa-Tachibana-eki ) is a railway station operated by JR East’s Narita Line located in Tōnoshō, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. It is 62.9 kilometres (39.1 mi) from the terminus of the Narita Line at Sakura Station.

History

Shimōsa-Tachibana Station was opened on March 11, 1933, as a station on the Japanese Government Railway (JGR) for both freight and passenger operations. After World War II, the JGR became the Japan National Railways (JNR). Scheduled freight operations were suspended from October 1, 1962. The station has been unattended since March 1, 1972. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the Japan National Railways (JNR) on April 1, 1987.

Lines

Layout

Shimōsa-Tachibana Station has dual opposed side platforms connected by an overpass to a wooden, single-story station building.

Platforms

1 Narita Line For Chōshi
2 Narita Line For Sawara, Narita, Sakura, Chiba

Adjacent stations

« Service »
Narita Line
Sasagawa - Shimōsa-Toyosato

External links

Coordinates: 35°49′08″N 140°42′07″E / 35.8189°N 140.7020°E / 35.8189; 140.7020


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