Gion Station (Chiba)

Gion Station
祇園駅
Gion Station
Location
Prefecture Chiba
(See other stations in Chiba)
City Kisarazu
Neighborhood etc. Gion 473
Postal code292 - 0052
(in Japanese)千葉県木更津市祇園473
History
Year opened 1961
Rail services
Operator(s) JR East
Line(s) Kururi Line
Statistics 319 passengers/day (2009)

Gion Station (祇園駅 Gion-eki) is a railway station operated by JR East's Kururi Line located in Kisarazu, Chiba Prefecture Japan. It is 2.6 kilometers from the terminus of the Kururi Line at Kisarazu Station.

History

Gion Station was opened on March 1, 1961. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the Japan National Railways (JNR) on April 1, 1987.

Lines

Station layout

Gion Station has a single side platform serving bidirectional traffic. The platform is short, and can only handle trains with a length of five carriages or less. The station is unattended.

Platform

1 Kururi Line Kisarazu
Kazusa-Kameyama


Adjacent stations

« Service »
Kururi Line
Kisarazu - Kazusa-Kiyokawa

External links

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Coordinates: 35°23′29.51″N 139°56′53.93″E / 35.3915306°N 139.9483139°E