Station

Kasagami-Kurohae

笠上黒生

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Kasagami-Kurohae
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Timetable information

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Location

History

Kasagami-Kurohae Station opened on 1 July 1925 as a stop on the Chōshi Railway, in what is now Chōshi, Chiba Prefecture. The name combines the Kasagami-chō area where the station was built with the neighbouring Kurohae area, which was once famous for the roof tiles transported away by the line. It became a Chōshi Electric Railway station on 20 August 1948, when the operating company changed its name. It has two opposed side platforms — uniquely on the line, this is the only station where trains can pass in opposite directions — and is staffed. The station also houses the line's electrical substation, with a 300 kW silicon rectifier supplying 600 V DC to the overhead wires.

Notes

In December 2015 the scalp-care company Mesocare+ bought the naming rights and the signs were changed to read "Kaminoke-Kurohae" — "hair grows black", a play on the station's own name — under a contract that ran for one year and was then renewed annually. On 6 August 2025 the country of Nauru took the rights, and the station now displays "Nauru Kyōwakoku", with announcements in Nauruan played on arriving trains.

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