Sawara

Weekday departures: 1/day · Sat & holiday departures: 1/day

First / last train (weekday): 15:45 / 15:45

Busiest hour: 15:00–16:00 (1)

█
0:00 ─ 23:00

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

• JR Narita Line Airport Branch: Narita

Sawara Station opened on 3 February 1898 as a Narita Railway terminus for both passenger and freight services. The Narita Railway was nationalised on 1 September 1920 and absorbed into the Japanese Government Railways; on 10 November 1931 the line was extended eastward to Sasagawa. Scheduled freight handling ended on 1 February 1984, and operation passed to JR East at the 1987 privatisation of Japanese National Railways. The first station building was refreshed in 2007 for the Chiba Destination Campaign, and a second-generation building entered service in June 2011, designed in a vernacular style echoing the preserved Sawara townscape just south of the station. Suica was introduced and automatic ticket gates were installed on 14 March 2009.

The 2011 station building and the 2015 plaza were styled to echo the preserved Edo-era warehouses of the Sawara historic district, which lies a short walk south of the station.