History
Chōshi Station opened on 1 June 1897 as the eastern terminus of the Sōbu Railway, 120.5 km from Tokyo. The Sōbu Railway was nationalised on 1 September 1907 and the station passed to JR East at privatisation on 1 April 1987. On 5 July 1923 the privately operated Chōshi Electric Railway opened a connecting line eastward to Tokawa, reusing infrastructure left by the short-lived Chōshi Sightseeing Railway of 1913–1917. The 1936 wooden station building was destroyed by fire during the 1945 air raids, and the third-generation building was completed in January 1948. Scheduled freight ceased on 31 March 1978.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The entrance to the Chōshi Electric Railway's bay platform is sheltered by a Dutch-style canopy installed in November 1990, a deliberate gesture to the neighbouring tourist-oriented narrow-gauge line.