Tawarada Station
Tawarada Station (俵田駅, Tawarada-eki) is a railway station operated by JR East's Kururi Line located in Kimitsu, Chiba Prefecture Japan. It is 21.0 kilometers from the western terminus of the Kururi Line at Kisarazu Station.
Tawarada Station 俵田駅 | |
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 Tawarada Station | |
| Location | Tawarada 1630, Kimitsu, Chiba （千葉県君津市俵田1630） Japan |
| Operated by | JR East |
| Line(s) | Kururi Line |
| History | |
| Opened | 1921 |
| Traffic | |
| Passengers (2006) | 64 daily |
History
Tawarada Station was opened on July 10, 1921 as a station on the Chiba Prefectural Railways Kururi Line. The line was nationalized into the Japanese Government Railways (JGR) on September 1, 1923. The JGR became the Japan National Railways (JNR) after World War II. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the JNR on April 1, 1987. The original station building was destroyed in a fire on January 3, 2008, and a new structure was completed in 2009.
Station layout
Tawarada Station has a single side platform serving bidirectional traffic. The platform is short, and can only handle trains with a length of three carriages or less. The station is unattended.