Station

Onjuku

御宿

Onjuku
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Train service

Weekday departures: 18/day · Sat & holiday departures: 16/day

First / last train (weekday): 6:50 / 22:26

Busiest hour: 8:00–9:00 (2)

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Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map.

Adjacent stations

Location

History

Onjuku Station opened on 20 June 1913 on what is now the Sotobō Line in the town of Onjuku, Chiba Prefecture. Freight handling was withdrawn on 1 July 1971 and parcel handling on 1 March 1972. The station passed to JR East at the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 and was integrated into the Tokyo suburban network when Suica IC-card ticketing began on 14 March 2009. From the 16 March 2013 timetable revision all Wakashio limited-express services have stopped here. The staffed Midori-no-Madoguchi reservation window closed on 31 May 2022, and the station is now operated under contract from a hub centre at Katsuura. It lies 65.4 km from Chiba.

Notes

The station name plaque incorporates a motif from the children's song "Tsuki no Sabaku" ("Moonlit Desert"), set on Onjuku beach, and a bronze statue of an ama diver stands at the Chiba end of the platform.

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