History
Chikura Station opened on 1 June 1921 on what is today JR East's Uchibō Line, 96.6 km from the line's terminus at Soga. With the privatisation of the Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 it passed to East Japan Railway Company. A replacement station building was completed in February 2007. The platform layout consists of one side platform and one island platform serving three tracks, connected to the station building by a footbridge; a staffed ticket office and a tourist-information desk operate inside. In fiscal 2019 the station averaged about 338 boarding passengers daily.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
A small tourist-information desk shares the staffed concourse with the JR East ticket office, reflecting the station's role as the gateway to Minamibōsō's Chikura fishing port.