History
Nishi-Ōhara Station serves the Isumi Railway Isumi Line in the city of Isumi, Chiba Prefecture, just 1.7 kilometres from the eastern line terminus at Ōhara. It opened on 20 June 1960 as a stop on the JNR Kihara Line. After the 1987 privatisation the station passed to JR East, and on 24 March 1988 the Kihara Line was transferred to the third-sector Isumi Railway and renamed the Isumi Line, with the operating distance from Ōhara revised from 1.8 to 1.7 kilometres. The unstaffed station has a single side platform serving one bidirectional track. In fiscal 2018 it averaged 13 boarding passengers per day.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Despite the unstaffed setup, Nishi-Ōhara sits within walking distance of Isumi City Hall, but Ōhara — less than two kilometres away — captures the bulk of those riders.