History
Tawarada Station opened on 10 July 1921 as a station on the Chiba Prefectural Railways Kururi Line, in present-day Kimitsu, Chiba. The line was nationalised on 1 September 1923 and became part of the Japanese Government Railways and later the Japan National Railways. Freight and parcel handling were withdrawn on 16 September 1954, at which point the station became unstaffed. Privatisation on 1 April 1987 transferred the station to JR East. The original station building was destroyed by fire on 3 January 2008, and a new prefabricated waiting room was completed within 2009; the station was incorporated into the Tokyo Suburban Area on 14 March of that year. The single platform accommodates trains up to two cars long.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
Despite its tiny ridership, Tawarada has a stop on the high-bus routes operated by Nittō Kōtsū and Keisei Bus toward Tokyo, Chiba, and the Kameda Hospital corridor, making the obscure rural station an unexpected highway-bus interchange.