History
Nittano Station opened on 20 June 1960 as a relatively late addition to the Japanese National Railways Kihara Line, in what is now the city of Isumi in Chiba Prefecture. With the division and privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987, the station was transferred to JR East, and on 24 March 1988 the entire line was handed over to the third-sector Isumi Railway and renamed the Isumi Line. The station sits 7.4 kilometres from the eastern terminus at Ōhara and consists of a simple side platform with a three-sided rain shelter; it is unstaffed. Naming rights are currently held by a company called Suntec, whose brand prefixes the station's signage.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.