Yatsumi Station

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Yatsumi Station
八積駅
Yatsumi Station
Location
Prefecture Chiba
(See other stations in Chiba)
District Chōsei
Village Chōsei
Neighborhood etc. Iwanuma 822
Postal code299 - 4336
(in Japanese)千葉県長生郡長生村岩沼822
History
Year opened 1898
Former name Iwanuma Station
Present name since 1915
Rail services
Operator(s) JR East
Line(s) Sotobō Line
Statistics 857 passengers/day (2009)
There is a bus stop near this station

Yatsumi Station (八積駅 Yatsumi-eki) is a railway station operated by JR East's Sotobō Line located in Chōsei, Chiba Prefecture Japan. It is 38.9 kilometers from the terminus of the Sotobō Line at Chiba Station.

History

Yatsumi Station was opened on March 25, 1898 as Iwanuma Station (岩沼駅 Iwanuma-eki) on the Boso Railway. It was absorbed into the Japanese Government Railways on September 1, 1907, and was renamed to its present name on March 11, 1915. It joined the JR East network upon the privatization of the Japan National Railways (JNR) on April 1, 1987.

Lines

Station layout

Yatsumi Station has a two opposed side platforms connected to a two-story station building.

Platform

1 Sotobō Line For Kazusa-Ichinomiya, Katsuura, Awa-Kamogawa
2 Sotobō Line For Mobara, Soga, Chiba

Adjacent stations

« Service »
Sotobō Line
Limited Express: no stop
Rapid: no stop
Mobara Local Kazusa-Ichinomiya

Coordinates: 35°24′15″N 140°20′44″E / 35.4041°N 140.3455°E / 35.4041; 140.3455

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