Shimōsa-Toyosato Station

Shimōsa-Toyosato Station 下総豊里駅
Shimōsa-Toyosato Station
General information
Location	Sasamoto-chō 73-4, Chōshi, Chiba （銚子市笹本町73-4） Japan
Operated by	JR East
Line(s)	Narita Line
History
Opened	1933
Passengers
2006	171 daily

Shimōsa-Toyosato Station (下総豊里駅, Shimōsa-Toyosato-eki) is a railway station operated by JR East’s Narita Line located in Chōshi, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. It is 66.2 kilometers from the terminus of the Narita Line at Sakura Station.

History

Shimōsa-Toyosato 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, 1971. The station has been unattended since March 1, 1985. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the Japan National Railways (JNR) on April 1, 1987. The station building was rebuilt in 2008.

Lines

• East Japan Railway Company
  • Narita Line

Layout

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

Platforms

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

Adjacent stations

«		Service	»
Narita Line
Shimōsa-Tachibana		-	Shiishiba

External links

• JR East station information (in Japanese)