History
Sawara Station opened on 3 February 1898 as a Narita Railway terminus for both passenger and freight services. The Narita Railway was nationalised on 1 September 1920 and absorbed into the Japanese Government Railways; on 10 November 1931 the line was extended eastward to Sasagawa. Scheduled freight handling ended on 1 February 1984, and operation passed to JR East at the 1987 privatisation of Japanese National Railways. The first station building was refreshed in 2007 for the Chiba Destination Campaign, and a second-generation building entered service in June 2011, designed in a vernacular style echoing the preserved Sawara townscape just south of the station. Suica was introduced and automatic ticket gates were installed on 14 March 2009.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The 2011 station building and the 2015 plaza were styled to echo the preserved Edo-era warehouses of the Sawara historic district, which lies a short walk south of the station.