History
Moto-Chōshi Station first opened in December 1913 as a stop on the Chōshi Sightseeing Railway, an early 5.9 km local railway running between Chōshi and Inuboh in Chiba Prefecture. That railway closed in November 1917, but the station was revived on 5 July 1923 when the Chōshi Railway (the predecessor of today's Chōshi Electric Railway) reopened service along the same alignment. The station was used in the filming of the 1985 NHK TV drama Miotsukushi. It became completely unstaffed on 1 January 2008. In August 2017 the building was renovated as part of a special Nippon Television "24-Hour TV" project, giving it a brick-clad Taishō-modern façade.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
A 2017 charity-TV renovation rebuilt the wooden building in a Taishō-modern brick style; the stained-glass panels in the waiting room were made by pupils of the local Shimizu elementary school next door.