History
Omigawa Station opened on 10 November 1931 as a Japanese Government Railways station on the Narita Line in present-day Katori, Chiba, handling both passenger and freight traffic. After the war the JGR became the JNR, and scheduled freight operations ended on 1 February 1974, with parcel handling discontinued on 14 March 1985. Privatisation in April 1987 transferred operations to JR East. The station building's public toilets were rebuilt in 1997, and Suica IC card service began on 14 March 2009 when the station joined the Greater Tokyo area zone. Contracted operations took over on 20 December 2014, and the Midori no Madoguchi ticket office closed on 31 May 2022.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Although the station sits in Chiba Prefecture, services include connections via the "Tonelainer" highway bus to and from Tokyo Station, as well as a community bus operated for the neighbouring Ibaraki municipality of Kamisu.