is a railway station in

Ōtaki, Chiba is a towns of Japan, town located in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. The town is known for its association with Edo period general Honda Tadakatsu, and its prominent Japanese castle, castle. , the town had an estimated population of 8,982 in 3820 househ ...

, Japan, jointly operated by the Isumi Railway Company and Kominato Railway Company.

Lines

Kazusa-Nakano Station is served by the Isumi Line and

Kominato Line The is a railway line in Chiba Prefecture, Japan, operated by the private railway operator . It extends from the west coast of central Bōsō Peninsula (where it connects with the Uchibō Line at ) to in the town of Ōtaki (where it connect ...

. It is located 26.8 km from the eastern terminus of the Izumi Line at Ōhara Station, and 39.1 km from the western terminus of the Kominato Line at

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Station layout

Kazusa-Nakano Station has two

side platform A side platform (also known as a marginal platform or a single-face platform) is a platform positioned to the side of one or more railway tracks or guideways at a railway station, tram stop, or transitway. A station having dual side platforms ...

s, each serving bidirectional traffic, one for the Isumi Line, and the other for the Kominato Line. The station is unstaffed.

Platforms

Kominato line train in Kazusanakano station

Adjacent stations

History

Kazusa-Nakano Station was opened on May 16, 1928 as a station on the Kominato Line. On August 26, 1934, the

Japanese Government Railway The Japanese Government Railways (JGR) was the national railway system directly operated by the Japanese Ministry of Railways ( ja, 鉄道省, Tetsudō-shō, ) until 1949. It was a predecessor of Japanese National Railways and the later Japan Rai ...

(JGR) Kihara Line, the predecessor of the Isumi Line, began operations from Kazusa-Nakano Station. The Kihara Line became part of the

Japanese National Railways The abbreviated JNR or , was the business entity that operated Japan's national railway network from 1949 to 1987. Network Railways As of June 1, 1949, the date of establishment of JNR, it operated of narrow gauge () railways in all 46 pref ...

(JNR) after World War II, and freight operations were discontinued from October 1, 1974. With the division and

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of the Japan National Railways on April 1, 1987, the Kihara Line was acquired by the

East Japan Railway Company The is a major passenger railway company in Japan and is the largest of the seven Japan Railways Group companies. The company name is officially abbreviated as JR-EAST or JR East in English, and as in Japanese. The company's headquarters are ...

and was renamed the Isumi Line on March 24, 1988. The station building at Kazusa-Nakano station was rebuilt in 1989.

Surrounding area

* National Route 465

External links

Isumi Railway Company home page

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