History
Chitose Station opened on 20 May 1927 as the Chitose Provisional Stop on what is now the Uchibō Line and was elevated to a full station on 1 August 1930. Freight handling ended on 1 October 1962 and parcel service on 26 June 1971, with the station made unstaffed five days later. It passed to JR East at the April 1987 privatisation. A new station building replaced the timber original in February 2007, and Suica acceptance — together with absorption into the Tokyo Suburban Area — followed on 14 March 2009. The station has a single side platform serving bidirectional traffic, 98.6 km from the line's starting point at Soga.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.