Shin-Mobara Station

Shin-Mobara Station (新茂原駅, Shin-Mobara-eki) is a railway station operated by JR East's Sotobō Line located in Mobara, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. It is 31.4 kilometers from the terminus of the Sotobō Line at Chiba Station.

Shin-Mobara Station 新茂原駅
Shin-Mobara Station
Location	Nagao 2667, Mobara, Chiba （千葉県茂原市長尾2667） Japan
Operated by	JR East
Line(s)	Sotobō Line
Connections	Bus stop
History
Opened	1955
Traffic
Passengers (2009)	1,452 daily

History

Shin-Mobara Station was opened on September 1, 1955 as a passenger station on the Japan National Railways. Freight operations began on December 1, 1981, with the construction of a spur line to the nearby Mitsui Kagagu Ichihara factory. The station joined the JR East network upon the privatization of the Japan National Railways (JNR) on April 1, 1987, with freight operations coming under the control of the Japan Freight Railway Company. Freight container operations began from October 1994, but were discontinued in March 1996 and all freight operations ceased from April 1, 1999.

Lines

• East Japan Railway Company
  • Sotobō Line

Station layout

Shin-Mobara Station has a single island platform serving two tracks, connected to a one-story station building.

Platform

1	■ Sotobō Line	For Mobara, Kazusa-Ichinomiya, Katsuura, Awa-Kamogawa
2	■ Sotobō Line	For Ōami, Soga, Chiba

Adjacent stations

«		Service	»
Sotobō Line
Limited Express: Does not stop at this station
Rapid: Does not stop at this station
Honnō		Local	Mobara

External links

• (in Japanese) JR East Station information