Mobara Station

Mobara Station 茂原駅
Mobara Station exit
Location
Prefecture	Chiba (See other stations in Chiba)
City	Mobara
Neighborhood etc.	Machibo 1
Postal Code	297 - 0022
(in Japanese)	千葉県茂原市町保1
History
Year opened	1897
Former name	Mohara Station
Present name since	1935
Rail services
Operator(s)	JR East
Line(s)	Sotobō Line
Statistics	11,828 passengers/day (2009)
There is a bus stop near this station

Mobara Station (茂原駅, Mobara-eki^?) is a railway station operated by JR East's Sotobō Line located in Mobara, Chiba Prefecture Japan. It is 34.3 kilometers from the terminus of the Sotobō Line at Chiba Station.

History

Mobara Station was opened on April 17, 1897 as Mohara Station (茂原駅, Mohara-eki^?) on the Bōsō Railway. It was absorbed into the Japanese Government Railways on September 1, 1907. From 1909-1926 it was also the terminal of the Chōnan-Mobara-Kan Jinsha Kidō (庁南茂原間人車軌道^?), a human-powdered railway extending to Chōnan, Chiba. On August 1, 1930, the station became the terminus of the Nansō Railway (南総鉄道, Nansō Tetsudō^?), which became the Sotobō Line from 1939. It was renamed to its present name on July 10, 1935. It joined the JR East network upon the privatization of the Japan National Railways (JNR) on April 1, 1987.

Lines

• East Japan Railway Company
  • Sotobō Line

Station layout

Mobara Station has a two island platforms serving four tracks, connected to each other and to the station building by an underpass.

Platform

1	■Sotobō Line	For Soga, Chiba, Kaihin-Makuhari, Tokyo
2	■Sotobō Line	For Soga, Chiba, Kaihin-Makuhari, Tokyo
3	■Sotobō Line	For Kazusa-Ichinomiya, Katsuura, Awa-Kamogawa
4	■Sotobō Line	For Kazusa-Ichinomiya, Katsuura, Awa-Kamogawa

Adjacent stations

«		Service	»
Sotobō Line
Ōami		Limited Express	Kazusa-Ichinomiya
Ōami		Rapid	Kazusa-Ichinomiya
Shin-Mobara		Local	Yatsumi

External links

• (Japanese) JR East Station information

Coordinates: 35°25′34″N 140°18′15″E / 35.4261°N 140.3043°E / 35.4261; 140.3043