Station

Itabu

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Itabu
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Timetable information

Kazusa-Ushiku – Kazusa-Nakano: suspended from 20 September 2026 No replacement transport is listed. Full details: Kominato Line →

Departure data for this station is not available on this site.

Location

History

Itabu Station opened on 1 September 1926 on what is now the Kominato Line in Ichihara, Chiba Prefecture, 27.5 km along the line from its western terminus at Goi Station. It became unstaffed on 5 January 1956 and has remained a single-side-platform halt with only a small shelter, used by an average of 6 boarding passengers per day in fiscal 2010. Today the station is best known regionally for an adjacent installation completed in 2012 and for seasonal photography of the cherry and rape blossoms at the station.

Notes

In April 2012 the station forecourt gained a 200-square-metre installation by architect Sou Fujimoto dubbed "Toilet in Nature" — a single glass-walled women-only cubicle within a cedar-log enclosure, advertised as the world's largest restroom.

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