is a railway station on the privately operated

Chōshi Electric Railway Line The is a long railway line operated by the private railway, privately owned Chōshi Electric Railway between Chōshi Station, Chōshi and Tokawa Station, Tokawa stations in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. It is the Chōshi Electric Railway's only li ...

in Chōshi, Chiba, Japan.

Lines

Inuboh Station is served by the

from to . It is located between and Tokawa stations, and is a distance of 5.5 km from Chōshi Station.

Station layout

The station is staffed during the daytime, and consists of one side platform serving a single track. ''Nure senbei'' (moist ''

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'' rice crackers) are made and sold inside the large Portuguese-style station building. Former Choshi Electric Railway DeHa 501 EMU car was sectioned and grounded in front of the station together with former Sagami Railway 2000 series EMU car MoNi 2022. These were used as shop and restaurant facilities until they were cut up on-site in July 2012 due to their increasingly poor structural condition. File:DeHa 501 Sotetsu 2022 Inubo 20091122.JPG, Former DeHa 501 car (left) and Sagami Railway MoNi 2022 car (right) in front of the station in November 2009 File:Inubo station.JPG, The platform looking southward toward Tokawa in September 2012

History

Inuboh Station first opened in December 1913 as a station on the , which operated a distance of 5.9 km between and Inuboh. The railway closed in November 1917, but was reopened on 5 July 1923 as the Chōshi Railway. The original station was located 400 m south of the location of the present-day Inuboh Station. On 21 June 1935, a new temporary station opened at the present-day station of Inuboh Station, named . This became a full-time station from 14 August 1935. With the opening of Tōdaimae Station, passenger usage of the original Inuboh Station dropped from an average of 30 passengers daily in 1930 to an average of just 13 passengers daily. The original Inuboh Station closed from 15 November 1941, from which date Tōdaimae Station was renamed Inuboh. The original station structure included a roof extending over the platform, but this was damaged by a

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in September 1948, and not replaced. A new Portuguese-style station building was completed in December 1990 with a large forecourt area for special events.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2010, the station was used by an average of 158 passengers daily (boarding passengers only). The passenger figures for previous years are as shown below.

Surrounding area

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* * Inubosaki Marine Park

Inubōsaki Onsen

Since 1996, a number of hotels in the vicinity started boring for ''

onsen In Japan, are hot springs and the bathing facilities and Ryokan (inn), traditional inns around them. There are approximately 25,000 hot spring sources throughout Japan, and approximately 3,000 ''onsen'' establishments use naturally hot water ...

'' hot springs. * * (closed 20 April 2012) * * * * *

References

External links

Choshi Electric Railway station information
{{DEFAULTSORT:Inuboh Station Stations of Chōshi Electric Railway Line Railway stations in Chiba Prefecture Railway stations in Japan opened in 1913