History
Namihana Station opened on 20 June 1913 in what is now Isumi, Chiba Prefecture, on the line that later became the JR East Sotobo Line. Freight handling was discontinued on 1 November 1961 and parcel service on 1 March 1972, with the station becoming unstaffed on 1 July of the same year. The current simple station building dates from March 1980. The station was absorbed into the JR East network on 1 April 1987 with the privatisation of Japanese National Railways. Suica service began on 14 March 2009 when the station was incorporated into the Tokyo Suburban Area.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Within the Sotobo Line, only Namihana and Mikado have platform lengths capped at eight cars; longer 10-car formations from Tokyo cannot terminate here.