Tsukizaki Station

Railway station in Ichihara, Chiba Prefecture, Japan

Tsukizaki Station

月崎駅

Tsukizaki Station in July 2015

General information

Location

539 Tsukizaki, Ichihara, Chiba
（千葉県市原市月崎539）
Japan

Operated by

Kominato Railway

Line(s)

Kominato Line

History

Opened

1926

Passengers

FY2010

5 daily

Services

Preceding station	Kominato Railway			Following station
Itabu towards Goi		Kominato Line		Kazusa-Ōkubo towards Kazusa-Nakano

Tsukizaki Station (月崎駅, Tsukizaki-eki) is a railway station on the Kominato Line in Ichihara, Chiba, Japan, operated by the third-sector railway operator Kominato Railway.

Lines

Tsukizaki Station is served by the Kominato Railway Kominato Line, and lies 29.8 km from the western terminus of the line at Goi Station.

Station layout

The station has a single side platform serving a bidirectional single track. There is an additional island platform next to the running line, but this is now disused. The old, wooden, station building is unstaffed, and has a waiting room only, and no ticket gate.

Platforms

■ Kominato Line

for Kazusa-Ushiku and Goi
for Kazusa-Nakano

An overview of the station platforms, April 2008
The platform looking north (toward Goi), with the disused track and platform on the right, July 2015
The view from the platform, looking south (toward Kazusa-Nakano), July 2015
The station toilet, July 2015
The public toilet next to the station, July 2015

History

The station opened on September 1, 1926.^[1] It has been unstaffed since 1 April 1967.^[1]

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2010, the station was used by an average of 5 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Terada, Hirokazu (19 January 2013). データブック日本の私鉄 [Databook: Japan's Private Railways]. Japan: Neko Publishing. p. 208. ISBN 978-4-7770-1336-4.