is a railway station operated by the Kominato Railway Company's Kominato Line, located in Ichihara

Ichihara, Chiba

is a city located in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. As of August 2010, the city has an estimated population of 279,080, with a population density of 758 persons per km². The total area of Ichihara was 368.20 km²...

, Chiba Prefecture

Chiba Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region and the Greater Tokyo Area. Its capital is Chiba City.- History :Chiba Prefecture was established on June 15, 1873 with the merger of Kisarazu Prefecture and Inba Prefecture...

, Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

. It is 34.9 kilometers from the western terminus of the Kominato Line at Goi Station

Goi Station

is a train station on the Uchibō and Kominato lines, operated by the East Japan Railway Company and Kominato Railway. It is located in Ichihara, Chiba.-Station layout:...

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History

Yōrōkeikoku Station was opened on May 16, 1928 as . It was renamed to its present name in December 1954.

Station layout

Yōrōkeikoku Station has a single island platform

Island platform

An island platform is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway interchange...

 and a side platform

Side platform

A Side platform is a platform positioned to the side of a pair of tracks at a railway station, a tram stop or a transitway. A pair of side platforms are often provided on a dual track line with a single side platform being sufficient for a single track line...

; however, at present only the side platform is in use, serving bidirectional traffic. The station is one of the few on the Kominato line which is staffed.

Platforms

Adjacent stations

External links

Kominato Railway Company home page