Chiba

Weekday departures: 514/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 310/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 4:28 / 24:30 (00:30 next day)

Busiest hour in the available data: 7:00–8:00 (43)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026 to 5 May 2026: the timetables behind these figures were retrieved on different dates.

The timetable data is incomplete for some or all lines at this station, so the weekday and Sat & holiday figures are departures in the available timetable data, not totals.

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• Chiba Urban Monorail Line 1: no timetable data
• Chiba Urban Monorail Line 2: no timetable data
• JR Sotobo Line: only trains from timetables filed under other lines
• Sobu Main Line: timetable covers only part of the line

• Chiba Urban Monorail Line 2: Tsuga
• JR Sotobo Line: Hon-Chiba
• Sobu Main Line: Nishi-Chiba ⇄ Higashi-Chiba

Chiba Station opened on 20 July 1894 as a Sōbu Railway station. The Bōsō Railway began calling in February 1896, and both companies were nationalised on 1 September 1907. The station was destroyed by the Great Kantō earthquake in September 1923 and damaged again in air raids in June 1945. It was relocated to its present elevated site on 28 April 1963, eliminating the switchback that through trains between the Sōbu Main Line towards Tokyo and the Sotobō Line towards Awa-Kamogawa had previously had to make here, and creating the V-shaped layout that defines the modern station. JNR's privatisation on 1 April 1987 transferred operation to JR East. The present station building — the first in 53 years — opened on 20 November 2016, with the ticket gates and concourse concentrated on the third floor, and the Perie Chiba retail complex was fully launched on 28 June 2018.

Chiba was the first major JR East station to drop departure bells: from May 1988 it ran a three-month silent-departure trial that the railway industry press praised, and even now in 2025 the station still operates without departure melodies on every platform.