General information | |||||||||||
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Location | 2917 Shimizu-chō, Chōshi-shi, Chiba-ken Japan | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 35°43′52″N 140°50′52″E / 35.73111°N 140.84778°E | ||||||||||
Operated by | Choshi Electric Railway | ||||||||||
Line(s) | Choshi Electric Railway Line | ||||||||||
Distance | 1.8 km from Chōshi | ||||||||||
Platforms | 1 ( 1 side platform) | ||||||||||
Tracks | 1 | ||||||||||
Construction | |||||||||||
Parking | No | ||||||||||
Other information | |||||||||||
Status | Unstaffed | ||||||||||
Station code | CD04 | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
Opened | December 1913 | ||||||||||
Rebuilt | August 2017 | ||||||||||
Electrified | 1 July 1925 | ||||||||||
Passengers | |||||||||||
FY2015 | 86 daily | ||||||||||
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Moto-Chōshi Station (本銚子駅, Moto-Chōshi-eki) is a railway station on the privately operated Choshi Electric Railway Line in Chōshi, Chiba, Japan.
Moto-Chōshi Station is served by the 6.4 km (4.0 mi) Choshi Electric Railway Line from Chōshi to Tokawa. It is located between Kannon and Kasagami-Kurohae stations, and is a distance of 1.8 km (1.1 mi) from Chōshi Station. [1]
The station consists of one side platform serving a single track, and is unstaffed. [1]
Moto-Chōshi Station first opened in December 1913 as a station on the Chōshi Sightseeing Railway (銚子遊覧鉄道, Chōshi Yūran Tetsudō), which operated a distance of 5.9 km between Chōshi and Inuboh. [2] The railway closed in November 1917, [2] but was reopened on 5 July 1923 as the Chōshi Railway. [1] Motochōshi was the name of the area at the time the station was built. [3]
The station was used in the filming of the 1985 NHK TV drama Miotsukushi. [4]
The station became unstaffed from 1 January 2008. [1]
The station was renovated in August 2017 as part of a special Nippon Television 24-hour TV project. [5]
In fiscal 2015, the station was used by an average of 86 passengers daily (boarding passengers only). [5] The passenger figures for past years are as shown below.
Fiscal year | Daily average |
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2007 | 189 [6] |
2008 | 180 [7] |
2009 | 181 [8] |
2010 | 156 [9] |
2015 | 86 [5] |