Yokaichiba

Weekday departures: 53/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 51/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:25 / 23:41

Busiest hour in the available data: 7:00–8:00 (5)

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:

• Sobu Main Line: timetable covers only part of the line

• Sobu Main Line: Higata ⇄ Igura

Yōkaichiba Station opened on 1 June 1897 as a stop on the privately built Sōbu Railway in present-day Sōsa, Chiba. On 1 September 1907 the Sōbu Railway was nationalised, transferring the station to the Imperial Railway Agency. The Chiba Prefectural Railway's Tako Line — later operated by Narita Railway — opened on 5 December 1926 with Yōkaichiba as its junction with the Sōbu Main Line, but the Tako Line was suspended on 11 January 1944 as a wartime non-essential branch and formally closed in 1946. Freight handling ended on 1 October 1974, and the station passed to JR East at JNR's privatisation on 1 April 1987. The Midori-no-Madoguchi reserved-seat office closed on 1 April 2006, a north-south pedestrian passageway opened on 1 September 2007, and Suica IC cards were accepted from 14 March 2009 as the station was folded into the Tokyo metropolitan fare zone.

The wooden station building remains in use; in the late 1990s its pit-style toilets were rebuilt as flush facilities. On the 113-series local trains that formerly ran between Chiba and Chōshi, services routed over the Sōbu Main Line between Sakura and Matsugishi showed destination displays reading simply "Yōkaichiba-mawari" (via Yōkaichiba); the 211 series 3000 subseries that has since left the line and the more recently introduced 209 series 2000/2100 subseries display only "Sōbu Main Line".