History
Mikado Station opened on 16 August 1903 as a freight stop on the privately operated Bōsō Railway in what is now Isumi, Chiba Prefecture, gaining scheduled passenger service on 14 January 1905. The line was nationalised on 1 September 1907 and folded into the Japanese Government Railways, later becoming part of the JNR network. Freight handling ended on 1 October 1962 and the station was destaffed on 1 July 1972. In 1985, the original building was demolished and replaced with a structure improvised from two modified shipping containers. Operations passed to JR East with privatisation on 1 April 1987. The container building burned down on 30 November 2005 and the present small building, completed in February 2007, replaced it.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Mikado's platform can only accommodate trains of up to eight cars, making it one of only three single-track stations on the entire Sotobō Line.