Yokaichiba

Weekday departures: 53/day · Sat & holiday departures: 51/day

First / last train (weekday): 5:25 / 23:41

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (5)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map.

• Sōbu 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 still in use was lightly modernised in the late 1990s when its pit-style toilets were rebuilt as flush facilities; on 113-series locals running Sakura–Matsugishi before the late 1980s the indicator boards labelled the route via Yōkaichiba simply as "Yōkaichiba-mawari" rather than naming the parent line.