History
Obitsu Station opened on 28 December 1912 as a stop on the Chiba Prefectural Railway's Kururi Line in present-day Kimitsu, Chiba Prefecture, located 18.2 km from the line's terminus at Kisarazu. The line was nationalised into the Japanese Government Railways on 1 September 1923 and passed through the Japan National Railways era before JR East took over at JNR's privatisation on 1 April 1987. The station once had two opposed side platforms; one is no longer in use, and its overgrown remains can still be seen alongside the active track. The remaining platform is short and accommodates trains of only four cars or fewer. The station is unattended, and fiscal-year-2006 ridership averaged around 154 passengers per day.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.