History
Yokota Station opened on 28 December 1912 as Nakagawa Station on the Chiba Prefectural Railways Kururi Line, in what is now the city of Sodegaura, Chiba Prefecture. It was renamed Yokota Station on 1 July 1915. The line was nationalised into the Japanese Government Railways on 1 September 1923, and the stop was absorbed into JR East with the 1 April 1987 privatisation. Semaphore signals here were converted to colour-light signals on 27 February 1997 — completing the removal of semaphore signalling from the entire Kururi Line. The ticket window closed on 6 December 2017, leaving the staffed station with only an automated ticket machine. The station has two opposed side platforms connected by a level crossing.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.