History
Ōto Station opened on 1 April 1926 in what is now the city of Katori, Chiba, as a Japanese Government Railway stop handling both passengers and freight on the Narita Line. It became a JNR station after the war, lost scheduled freight service on 1 October 1962, and was destaffed on 1 July 1970. Privatisation on 1 April 1987 transferred it to JR East, and the station building was rebuilt in stages between 2007 and 2011. The stop has a single ground-level island platform reached by footbridge and no station building; restrooms stand to the north. It lies 36.1 kilometres from the Narita Line's terminus at Sakura.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Although tucked into rice-growing countryside off National Route 356, the station served only 243 boardings per day in fiscal 2006.