History
Emi Station is a two-platform JR East halt on the Uchibō Line in Kamogawa, Chiba Prefecture, 111.4 km from the line's origin at Soga. It opened on 1922-12-20. Freight handling ended on 1962-10-01, parcel handling on 1971-06-26, and the station was destaffed on 1972-08-21; Kamogawa city took on simplified ticket-agency duties from 1973. The station passed to JR East at the 1987 JNR privatisation and joined the Tokyo-area Suica zone on 2009-03-14. After the city ticket agency was withdrawn on 2019-07-01, the station was rebuilt jointly with the post office and reopened on 2020-08-31 as a combined facility, with Japan Post taking over weekday station counter duties.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Since the 2020 rebuild, the post office inside the station building handles ticket sales and train-time information during weekday banking hours — the first time in Japan that a post office has taken over a railway station's counter duties.