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in the city of

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, Chiba, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and the private railway operator

Ryūtetsu The is a commuter rail line in Chiba Prefecture, Japan, operated by between Mabashi Station in Matsudo and Nagareyama Station in Nagareyama. The line and the operator company was called the and respectively until the renaming on August 1, 2 ...

Lines

Mabashi Station is served by the

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from in Tokyo, and is 19.1 kilometers from the official starting point of the Jōban Line at

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. It is also forms the terminus of the 5.7 kilometer

Nagareyama Line The is a commuter rail line in Chiba Prefecture, Japan, operated by between Mabashi Station in Matsudo and Nagareyama Station in Nagareyama. The line and the operator company was called the and respectively until the renaming on August 1, ...

Station layout

The station consists of two

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s, one each for the Jōban Line and the Nagareyama Line. The station is staffed.

Platforms

JR

Nagareyama Line

History

Mabashi Station opened on August 6, 1898 as a station on the

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Tsuchiura Line. It was nationalised on November 1, 1906, becoming part of the

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(JGR) and the line name changed on October 12, 1909 to the Jōban Line. The privately owned Nagareyama Line began operations from Mabashi Station from March 14, 1916. Freight services from this station ceased on April 20, 1971, when the Jōban line was quadrupled. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the

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on April 1, 1987.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2019, the JR portion of the station was used by an average of 25,675 passengers daily. In fiscal 2018, the Ryutetsu portion of the station was used by an average of 1525 passengers daily.

References

External links

JR East Station information

{{Nagareyama Line Railway stations in Japan opened in 1898 Railway stations in Chiba Prefecture Jōban Line Matsudo