History
Kita-Chigasaki Station is on JR East's Sagami Line in Chigasaki 3-chōme, Chigasaki, Kanagawa. It opened on 1 February 1940 as 'Nittō Station' — a private station of the Sagami Railway, used only by employees of the nearby Nittō Seikō mining and chemical plant. It was nationalised on 1 June 1944 alongside the rest of the Sagami Line and renamed Kita-Chigasaki at the same time. Freight handling ended on 1 November 1986, JR East took over at privatisation on 1 April 1987, and automatic ticket gates were introduced on 24 February 1997. Suica IC-card service began on 18 November 2001. A single island platform serving two tracks, with the station building on the west side connected by an overhead bridge.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
Kita-Chigasaki opened in 1940 as a private station — passenger access was restricted to employees of the Nittō Seikō plant. It only became a public station with the 1944 nationalisation of the Sagami Line. The surrounding industrial estate still includes Tōhō Titanium, AGC Sei Mi Chemical and Tōkai Carbon plants whose now-removed dedicated freight sidings once filled the area.