History
Ichikawaono Station opened on 2 October 1978 on the Japanese National Railways' Musashino Line in Ōnochō, Ichikawa, Chiba. The provisional name during construction was Shimōsa-Ōno, but as JNR already had an Ōno Station on the Jōban Line in Fukushima, the city name Ichikawa was prefixed to keep the two distinct. The station passed to JR East on 1 April 1987, opened a staffed reserved-seat office in March 1993, accepted Suica from 18 November 2001, hosted JR East's first commercial deployment of a fibre-optic network signalling system from 3 February 2007, closed the reserved-seat office on 29 February 2012, and was placed under contract operation on 1 March 2020.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
JR East used Ichikawaono in 2007 as the first commercial deployment of a fibre-optic signalling network (Network Signal Control System) that replaced traditional copper cabling between the station's signals and switches.