History
Kimigahama Station opened on 21 June 1931 on the Chōshi Electric Railway Line in Chōshi, Chiba Prefecture. The unstaffed stop lies between Ashikajima and Inuboh, 4.7 kilometres from the Chōshi terminus, and consists of a single side platform with no station building. Its original western-style structure deteriorated in the post-war years and was eventually demolished. A white Italian-style archway was added in December 1990 to mark the entrance, but the arch and upper wall were partially removed in February 2007, leaving only the pillars. The platform was extended on the Chōshi side in December 2009 to accommodate DeHa 2000-series trains.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
From 2015 the station has carried a series of sponsored nicknames, including one in 2016 that referenced the Roswell UFO incident in New Mexico, tying the name into Chōshi's local UFO-themed tourism campaign.