History
Anegasaki Station is on JR East's Uchibō Line in Anesaki, Ichihara, Chiba. It opened on 28 March 1912 (then late-Meiji era), was double-tracked with two island platforms on 26 May 1968, and lost freight and luggage handling on 1 October 1971. From 1 March 1978 it became a stop for rapid-service trains. JR East took over at privatisation on 1 April 1987. A bridge-style station building opened on 29 May 1989 with new escalators, automatic ticket gates were introduced on 21 January 1995, and Suica IC-card service began on 18 November 2001. Two island platforms serving four tracks. Outsourced to JR East Station Services on 20 November 2017, and the staffed 'green ticket' window closed on 31 October 2021.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
The 4th platform track was set aside in March 2017 as a holding siding for a single train that arrives from Kisarazu in the evening and departs as the first morning Chiba-bound service the next day — a small but visible nod to the line's heavy commuting flow.