History
Tateyama Station serves the JR East Uchibō Line in Tateyama, Chiba Prefecture, 85.9 kilometres from the line's terminus at Soga. It opened on 24 May 1919 as Awa-Hōjō Station on the Hōjō Line, which merged with the Bōsō Line in 1929. After the 1933 merger of Hōjō Town and Tateyama Town and the 1939 creation of Tateyama City the station was renamed to its current form on 1 March 1946. Electrification followed on 11 July 1969 and the line itself became the Uchibō Line in 1972. Scheduled freight ended in 1982 and the station passed to JR East at the 1987 privatisation. A new bridge-over-tracks station building opened in March 1999 and earned a place among the Kantō-region 'Top 100 Stations' for its Spanish-styled exterior.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
When the station building reopened in 1999 it was picked for the Kantō region's 'Top 100 Stations' list with the citation calling it 'a Spanish-styled, fashionable station building that fits the southern-European mood of Southern Bōsō'.