Kannon Station

Kannon Station 観音駅
Kannon Station in March 2007
Location	36-1 Maejuku-chō, Chōshi-shi, Chiba-ken 288-0031 Japan
Operated by	Chōshi Electric Railway
Line(s)	Chōshi Electric Railway Line
Distance	1.1 km from Chōshi
Platforms	1 side platform
Tracks	1
History
Opened	December 1913
Traffic
Passengers (FY2010)	108 daily
Location
Kannon Station Location within Japan

Kannon Station (観音駅, Kannon-eki^?) is a railway station on the privately operated Chōshi Electric Railway Line in Chōshi, Chiba, Japan.

Kannon Station is served by the 6.4 km Chōshi Electric Railway Line from Chōshi to Tokawa. It is located between Nakanochō and Moto-Chōshi stations, and is a distance of 1.1 km from Chōshi Station.

The station consists of one side platform serving a single track. The station building was rebuilt in December 1991 to resemble a Swiss mountain railway station. The station is staffed, and includes a shop which bakes taiyaki cakes.

Kannon 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. The railway closed in November 1917, but was reopened on 5 July 1923 as the Chōshi Railway. In 1925, the station was moved to its current location, further away from Nakanochō Station.

In fiscal 2010, the station was used by an average of 108 passengers daily (boarding passengers only). The passenger figures for past years are as shown below.