Sawara

Weekday departures: 1/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 1/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 15:45 / 15:45

Busiest hour in the available data: 15:00–16:00 (1)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.

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:

• JR Narita Line Airport Branch: only trains from timetables filed under other lines

• JR Narita Line Airport Branch: Narita

Sawara Station opened on 3 February 1898 as a Narita Railway terminus for both passenger and freight services. The Narita Railway was nationalised on 1 September 1920 and absorbed into the Japanese Government Railways; on 10 November 1931 the line was extended eastward to Sasagawa. Scheduled freight handling ended on 1 February 1984, and operation passed to JR East at the 1987 privatisation of Japanese National Railways. The first station building was refreshed in 2007 for the Chiba Destination Campaign, and a second-generation building entered service in June 2011, designed in a vernacular style echoing the preserved Sawara townscape just south of the station. Suica was introduced and automatic ticket gates were installed on 14 March 2009.

The 2011 station building and the 2015 station plaza were given a unified Japanese-style design echoing the townscape of the Sawara Important Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings, for which the station is the nearest stop, a short walk to the south.