Higashi-Yokota Station

Higashi-Yokota Station (東横田駅, Higashi-Yokota-eki) is a railway station operated by JR East's Kururi Line located in Sodegaura, Chiba Prefecture Japan. It is 10.8 kilometers from the western terminus of the Kururi Line at Kisarazu Station.

Higashi-Yokota Station 東横田駅
Higashi-Yokota Station
Location	Yokota 442, Sodegaura, Chiba （千葉県袖ケ浦市横田442） Japan
Operated by	JR East
Line(s)	Kururi Line
History
Opened	1937
Traffic
Passengers (2006)	156 daily

History

Higashi-Yokota Station was opened on April 20, 1937. The station was closed on January 20, 1947, but was reopened on April 1, 1958. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the JNR on April 1, 1987. A new station building was completed in January 2007.

Lines

• East Japan Railway Company
  • Kururi Line

Station layout

Higashi-Yokota Station has a single side platform serving bidirectional traffic. The platform is short, and can only handle trains with a length of four carriages or less. The station is unattended.

Platform

1

■ Kururi Line

For Kisarazu Kazusa-Kameyama

Adjacent stations

«		Service	»
Kururi Line
Yokota		-	Makuta

External links

• (in Japanese) JR East Station information