History
Shin-Mobara Station opened on 15 September 1955 as a Japanese National Railways passenger station on the Sotobō Line in what is now Mobara, Chiba Prefecture. From 1 December 1981 the station handled freight, with the Mitsui Tōatsu Kagaku (now Mitsui Chemicals Mobara) factory spur transferred from Mobara Station. The line passed to JR East and JR Freight at the 1 April 1987 privatisation. Specialised-spur container traffic ran from 1 October 1994 to 16 March 1996, and JR Freight operations ended on 1 April 1999. Some Keiyo-Line through rapids began stopping from 4 December 2010, and on 16 March 2024 all remaining rapids were rerouted to call here.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.