Matsugishi Station

Matsugishi Station 松岸駅
Matsugishi Station in 2006
Location	Nagatsukamachi, Chōshi, Chiba （千葉県銚子市長塚町） Japan
Operated by	JR East
Line(s)	Sōbu Main Line Narita Line
History
Opened	1897
Traffic
Passengers (FY2012)	460 daily

Matsugishi Station (松岸駅, Matsugishi-eki^?) is a railway station in Chōshi, Chiba, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Matsugishi Station is served by the Sōbu Main Line and Narita Line, and is located 117.3 km from the western terminus of the Sōbu Main Line at Tokyo Station and 75.4 kilometers from the terminus of the Narita Line at Sakura Station.

Matsugishi Station has a side platform and an island platform connected by an overpass. The station building is a wooden, one-story structure. The station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office.

Matsugishi Station opened on 1 June 1897 as a station on the Sōbu Railway. On 1 September 1907, the Sōbu Railway was nationalised, becoming part of the Japanese Government Railway (JGR). On 11 March 1933, the Narita Line was extended from Sasagawa to this station. After World War II, the JGR became the Japanese National Railways (JNR). The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987.

In fiscal 2012, the station was used by an average of 460 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).

The passenger figures for previous years are as shown below.