History
Kazusa-Nakano Station opened on 1928-05-16 as a Kominato Railway terminus, intended as one anchor of a planned but never-completed cross-Bōsō rail route. The Japanese Government Railway's Kihara Line reached it on 1934-08-26, creating the present rare meeting of private and government lines. Freight ended on 1974-10-01. With JNR privatisation on 1987-04-01 the Kihara Line passed to JR East, and on 1988-03-24 it was transferred again to the third-sector Isumi Railway; the station has been unstaffed since. The wooden station building was reconstructed in 1989.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Old rail still in use on the Kominato platform carries an 八幡製鉄所 (Yawata Steel) imprint dated 1927, predating the 1928 opening — believed to be original from the line's construction.