Matsugishi

Known weekday departures: 43/day in the available timetable data · Known Sat & holiday departures: 43/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 4:59 / 24:08 (00:08 next day)

Busiest hour in the available data: 19:00–20:00 (4)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are the departures known from the timetable data, not a count of today's actual service.

Timetable data as of 5 May 2026 (retrieved in spring/summer 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
• Sobu Main Line: timetable covers only part of the line

• Sobu Main Line: Saruda ⇄ Choshi

Matsugishi Station opened on 1 June 1897 as a stop on the Sōbu Railway in Chōshi, Chiba Prefecture. The line was nationalised on 1 September 1907, bringing the station under the Japanese Government Railway and later Japan National Railways. The Narita Line was extended from Sasagawa to terminate here on 11 March 1933, making Matsugishi a junction. With JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987, the station passed to JR East. The wooden one-storey station building survives and the station remains staffed under contract to JR East Station Service.

Express trains do not stop here, but the section between Matsugishi and Chōshi is specifically excluded from the standard junction-station free-ride exemption in JR fare rules.