History
Nobukata Station opened on 20 August 1970 as a Japanese National Railways station on the Kashima Line, sited 10.4 km from the line's official start at Katori Station. It passed to JR East at the 1 April 1987 JNR privatisation. The station was absorbed into the Tokyo Suburban Area on 14 March 2009 and gained Suica IC support on 14 March 2020. Originally an island platform with two tracks, the station has since been simplified: as of March 2024 only one elevated track is in use, with the second platform abolished. The station building sits beneath the elevated structure, and the station is unstaffed and managed from Kashima-Jingū Station.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
After the 11 March 2011 Tōhoku earthquake the Kashima Line was cut at Nobukata: services between Katori and Nobukata resumed on 18 March, but the segment between Nobukata and Kashima-Jingū did not reopen until 15 April 2011, leaving the station as a temporary terminus for over a month.