is a railway station on the privately operated Choshi Electric Railway Line in Chōshi, Chiba, Japan.
Lines Moto-Chōshi Station is served by the Choshi Electric Railway Line from to . It is located between and stations, and is a distance of from Chōshi Station.
Station layout The station consists of one side platform serving a single track, and is unstaffed.
History Moto-Chōshi Station first opened in December 1913 as a station on the , which operated a distance of 5.9 km between and . The railway closed in November 1917, but was reopened on 5 July 1923 as the Chōshi Railway. Motochōshi was the name of the area at the time the station was built.
The station was used in the filming of the 1985 NHK TV drama Miotsukushi.
The station became unstaffed from 1 January 2008.
The station was renovated in August 2017 as part of a special Nippon Television 24-hour TV project.
Passenger statistics In fiscal 2015, the station was used by an average of 86 passengers daily (boarding passengers only). The passenger figures for past years are as shown below.
Fiscal year Daily average 2007 189 2008 180 2009 181 2010 156 2015 86
Surrounding area Chōshi Shimizu Elementary School
See also List of railway stations in Japan
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