Namegawa Island Station

Namegawa Island Station 行川アイランド駅
Namegawa Island Station
Location	Hamanamegawa 606, Katsuura, Chiba （千葉県勝浦市浜行川606） Japan
Operated by	JR East
Line(s)	Sotobō Line
Connections
History
Opened	1970
Traffic
Passengers (2006)	19 daily

Namegawa Island Station (行川アイランド駅 Namegawa-Airando-eki) is a railway station operated by JR East's Sotobō Line located in Katsuura, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. It is 80.5 kilometers from the terminus of the Sotobō Line at Chiba Station.

History

Namegawa Island Station was opened as a seasonal station on July 2, 1970 to cater to the summer tourist traffic to the nearby Namegawa Island Amusement Park. A number of express trains began stopping at the station from July 18, 1970. The station was upgraded to a year-around station from April 1, 1987, but was made unattended at the same time. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the Japan National Railways (JNR) on April 1, 1987. The station became a kan'i itaku station in 1990. However, with the closure of the Namekawa Island Amusement Park on August 31, 2001, the station was again unattended, and express trains services were discontinued. The station building was remodeled in January 2008.

Lines

• East Japan Railway Company
  • Sotobō Line

Station layout

Namegawa Island Station has one side platforms serving bidirectional traffic.

Platform

1

■ Sotobō Line

Awa-Kamogawa, Katsuura, Mobara, Soga, Chiba

Adjacent stations

«		Service	»
Sotobō Line
Limited Express: Does not stop at this station
Kazusa-Okitsu		Local	Awa-Kominato

Coordinates: 35°07′05″N 140°13′38″E / 35.1181°N 140.2272°E

External links

• (Japanese) JR East Station information