Gion (Chiba)

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Gion Station opened on 1 March 1961 as a petition station on the Japanese National Railways' Kururi Line, paid for in full by local subscription at a construction cost of 1.12 million yen. It is in Gion, Kisarazu, Chiba Prefecture, and originally handled only diesel-railcar passenger services at an unstaffed station. With the breakup of JNR on 1 April 1987 it became a JR East station, and on 14 March 2009 it was incorporated into the Tokyo suburban zone (Tōkyō kinkō kukan). The station has a single side platform handling up to five-car trains; it is managed remotely from Kururi Station and is unstaffed, with a station-entry-certificate vending machine installed. Gion is the closest non-Suica station to Tokyo Station by operational distance.

Gion Station is the closest station to Tokyo Station, measured in operational kilometres, where Suica IC cards cannot be used — a quirky distinction reflecting the fact that the Kururi Line was not included in JR East's Suica rollout despite its proximity to greater Tokyo.