Inagekaigan Station
railway station in Chiba, Chiba prefecture, Japan
Inagekaigan Station (稲毛海岸駅, Inage-Kaigan-eki) is a passenger railway station located in Mihama-ku, Chiba, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East).
Lines
Inagekaigan Station is served by the Keiyō Line from Tokyo and is 35.3 kilometers from the western terminus of the line at Tokyo Station.
Station layout
The elevated station consists of two side platforms serving two tracks between them, with the station building underneath. The station is staffed.
Platforms
History
The station opened on 3 March 1986. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987.
Station numbering was introduced to the JR East platforms in 2016 with Inagekaigan being assigned station number JE15. With the opening of Makuharitoyosuna in 2023, stations further down on the Keiyo Line were each shifted down one station number. As such, Inagekaigan was reassigned station number JE16.
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This entry incorporates text from “Inagekaigan Station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.