History
Saruda Station opened on 25 January 1898 as a passenger and freight stop on the Sōbu Railway in Chōshi, Chiba Prefecture. The Sōbu Railway was nationalised on 1 September 1907, placing the station under the Japanese Government Railway and later the Japan National Railways. Scheduled freight was withdrawn on 1 October 1962 and the station became unstaffed on 15 March 1974. With the 1 April 1987 JNR privatisation it passed to JR East, and Suica acceptance was added on 14 March 2009 when the station was folded into the Tokyo metropolitan area. The wooden station building was partially renovated in January 2007.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station front has a roundabout with a flower bed at its centre, and a marked path leads from there to nearby Saruda Shrine.