History
Kazusa-Minato Station opened on 15 January 1915 in what is now Futtsu, Chiba Prefecture, as a stop on the line that became the JR East Uchibo Line. Freight handling was withdrawn on 1 October 1974 and parcel service on 1 February 1984. The station was transferred to JR East on 1 April 1987 with the privatisation of Japanese National Railways, and management was later contracted to JR Chiba Railway Service. Suica service began on 14 March 2009 when the station was incorporated into the Tokyo Suburban Area. The staffed Midori no Madoguchi ticket office closed on 12 December 2017, leaving an automated ticket machine, a simple Suica gate and an island platform of two tracks behind the surviving wooden station building.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The Sanuki-machi to Takeoka section through Kazusa-Minato is prone to coastal gales severe enough to trigger speed restrictions or suspensions; a dedicated wind fence between Sanuki-machi and Kazusa-Minato was completed on 21 March 2012 to mitigate this.