Honnō Station

Honnō Station
本納駅
Honnō Station
Location
Prefecture Chiba
(See other stations in Chiba)
City Mobara
Neighborhood etc. Honnō 1791
Postal code299 - 4114
(in Japanese)千葉県茂原市本納1791
History
Year opened 1897
Rail services
Operator(s) JR East
Line(s) Sotobō Line
Statistics 1,921 passengers/day (2009)
There is a bus stop near this station

Honnō Station (本納駅 Honnō-eki) is a railway station operated by JR East's Sotobō Line located in Mobara, Chiba Prefecture Japan. It is 27.7 kilometers from the terminus of the Sotobō Line at Chiba Station.

History

Honnō Station was opened on April 17, 1897 as a station on the Bōsō Railway. It was absorbed into the Japanese Government Railways on September 1, 1907. Freight operations were discontinued from July 1971. It joined the JR East network upon the privatization of the Japan National Railways (JNR) on April 1, 1987.

Lines

Station layout

Honnō Station has a single side platform and an island platform, serving three tracks, connected to a one-story wooden station building.

Platform

1 Sotobō Line For Mobara, Kazusa-Ichinomiya, Katsuura, Awa-Kamogawa
2 Sotobō Line birdirectional traffic
3 Sotobō Line For Ōami, Soga, Chiba

Adjacent stations

« Service »
Sotobō Line
Limited Express: no stop
Rapid: no stop
Nagata Local Shin-Mobara
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Coordinates: 35°28′56″N 140°18′27″E / 35.4822°N 140.3074°E