Tawarada Station

Tawarada Station 俵田駅
Tawarada Station
General information
Location	Tawarada 1630, Kimitsu, Chiba （千葉県君津市俵田1630） Japan
Operated by	JR East
Line(s)	Kururi Line
History
Opened	1921
Passengers
2006	64 daily

Tawarada Station (俵田駅, Tawarada-eki) is a railway station operated by JR East's Kururi Line located in Kimitsu, Chiba Prefecture Japan. It is 21.0 kilometers from the western terminus of the Kururi Line at Kisarazu Station.

History

Tawarada Station was opened on July 10, 1921 as a station on the Chiba Prefectural Railways Kururi Line. The line was nationalized into the Japanese Government Railways (JGR) on September 1, 1923. The JGR became the Japan National Railways (JNR) after World War II. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the JNR on April 1, 1987. The original station building was destroyed in a fire on January 3, 2008, and a new structure was completed in 2009.

Lines

• East Japan Railway Company
  • Kururi Line

Station layout

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

Platform

1

■ Kururi Line

For Kisarazu Kazusa-Kameyama

Adjacent stations

«		Service	»
Kururi Line
Obitsu		-	Kururi

External links

• (in Japanese) JR East Station information