History
Hiregasaki Station opened on 14 March 1916 on what is now the Ryūtetsu Nagareyama Line in Nagareyama, Chiba Prefecture. The station sits within the historic Hiregasaki settlement, a hamlet whose name traces to a ninth-century legend and which, until about 1980, was almost the only cluster of houses in the immediate area. A small in-station shop closed on 30 November 2007, and the "Hiregasaki Station-mae" Tōbu bus stop in the adjacent Hiregasaki housing estate was abolished in 2014. The station retains its original single side platform with a small staffed station building on the west side of the track; ticket gates collect tickets only, and one of the two entrances is connected by a ramp to a modest forecourt.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Tōfuku-ji, a short walk from the station, is traditionally said to have been founded by Kūkai in 814 and to be the source of the place name "Hiregasaki" — from a legend that a dragon left behind the tip of its dorsal fin (鰭の先, hire-no-saki) on the site.