History
Kazusa-Mitsumata Station opened on 20 November 1932 on the Kominato Line in what is now Ichihara, Chiba Prefecture, operated by the private Kominato Railway. The station has been unstaffed since 1956, although a morning rush-hour ticket window operated until March 2013, when it was discontinued and an automatic ticket machine and security camera were installed. In March 1989 the original building was replaced by a German log-cabin style structure, but that building burned down on 17 February 2001 in a suspicious fire and was rebuilt over about a month and a half by the railway’s own crew. The stop has one side platform serving a single bidirectional track and lies 7.2 km from the western terminus at Goi.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The wooden station building seen today was hand-rebuilt by Kominato Railway’s own construction crew in about six weeks after a suspicious 2001 fire destroyed the previous German log-cabin style structure that had stood since 1989.