title: Kazusa-Kiyokawa Station
text: # Kazusa-Kiyokawa Station
  
  Kazusa-Kiyokawa Station (上総清川駅, Kazusa-Kiyokawa-eki) is a passenger railway station in the city of Kimitsu, Chiba Prefecture, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East).
  
  ## Lines
  
  Kazusa-Kiyokawa Station is a station on the Kururi Line, and is located 4.2 km from the terminus of the line at Kisarazu Station.
  
  ## Station layout
  
  The station consists of a single side platform serving bidirectional traffic. The platform is short, and can only handle trains with a length of five carriages or less. The station is unattended.
  
  ### Platform
  
  | 1 | ■ Kururi Line | Kisarazu Kazusa-Kameyama |
  | - | - | - |
  
  ## History
  
  Kazusa-Kiyokawa Station was opened on December 28, 1912 as Kiyokawa Station (清川駅, Kiyokawa-eki) on the Chiba Prefectural Railways Kururi Line. The line was nationalized into the Japanese Government Railways (JGR) on September 1, 1923 at which time the station name was changed to its present name. The JGR became the Japan National Railways (JNR) after World War II. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the JNR on April 1, 1987. The original station building was destroyed in typhoon in 2004 and replaced with the current structure.
  
  ## Passenger statistics
  
  In fiscal 2006, the station was used by an average of 254 passengers daily.
  
  ## Surrounding area
  
  * National Route 409
  * National Route 410
  * Seiwa University
  