History
Sodegaura Station is on JR East's Uchibō Line in Narawa, Sodegaura, Chiba. It opened on 21 August 1912 as Narawa Station, named after the then-existing Narawa village, on the JNR Kisarazu Line. After the line was successively redesignated the Hōjō Line (1919), Bōsō Line (1929), Bōsō West Line (1933) and then renamed the Uchibō Line on 15 July 1972, the station was renamed Sodegaura on 31 March 1974. Rapid-service trains began stopping (some only) on 1 December 2001, then all rapid services on 16 October 2004. JR East took over at privatisation on 1 April 1987, automatic ticket gates appeared on 4 November 1995, Suica on 18 November 2001, and a new bridge-style station building and N–S free passageway opened on 12 October 2014. The old wooden station building had been the oldest on the Uchibō Line; a single island platform.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
The old wooden Sodegaura Station building, dating to the line's 1912 opening, was the oldest station on the entire Uchibō Line — torn down only when the current bridge-style structure opened on 12 October 2014.