History
Makuta Station serves the Kisarazu district of Mari, Chiba Prefecture, and lies 13.9 km from the Kururi Line's terminus at Kisarazu. It opened on 28 December 1912 as part of the Chiba Prefectural Railways' Kururi Line, which was nationalised into the Japanese Government Railways on 1 September 1923. The stationmaster post was abolished on 1 September 1954, freight traffic ended on 1 October 1962, and parcel handling ceased on 1 February 1984. On 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR East at JNR's privatisation. The platform was reduced from two opposed sides to a single bidirectional track on 1 March 1995, the station was made fully unstaffed that June, and a simplified-contract arrangement followed in August. Makuta was incorporated into the Tokyo Suburban Area on 14 March 2009.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
From 24 April to 24 May 2007 the station was a testbed for an in-line presence system known as IT-Kakashi ("IT scarecrow"), which used a GPS-equipped mobile phone carried by the driver to trigger automated platform announcements about each train's position.