Chōshi Electric Railway Line

[14] There were four intermediate stations, at Nakanocho, Kannon, Moto-Choshi, and Ashikajima, and by 1914, eight return services operated daily, with journeys taking 23 minutes.

[14] Faced with poor ridership figures and increases in material costs caused by the outset of the First World War, the operating company announced its intention to close the line and sell off the infrastructure.

[14] The line's trackbed was converted to a dedicated bus route,[9] but the station buildings remained intact.

[14] The two steam locomotives, 1 and 2, were sold to Yawata Steel Works, where they were renumbered 200 and 201, and operated until after the Second World War.

The locomotives proved unreliable, however, and the line was electrified at 600 V DC from 1 July 1925, with a fleet of three electric cars purchased from the former Ina Electric Railway (伊那電気鉄道, Ina Denki Tetsudō) (present-day JR Iida Line).

[9] But, the pure loss of the management had increased because Uchinoya Komuten of a parent company had nine hundred ninety billion yen as debt and took an application of bankruptcy.

The 84 minute long horror comedy is set on the Chōshi Electric Railway line and was first shown in cinemas in 2020.

The videos often feature different staff members, mainly Katsuki Takemoto (CEO), Riho Sodeyama (conductor) and more recently also Kazuki Fukushima, a young station attendant.

DeHa 701 was returned to service in April 1996 following repairs and repainting back into the standard livery of dark brown and red.

[5] On 11 January 2014, at 08:19, 2000 series 2-car EMU set 2002 from Tokawa to Choshi derailed on points on the approach to Kasagami-Kurohae Station.

[8] Tokawa Station on the line was used as a filming location for the 1985 NHK TV drama series Miotsukushi (澪つくし).

[20] The line formed the backdrop for the 2015 novel Tomoshibi: Choshi Dentetsu no Chiisa na Kiseki (トモシビ-銚子電鉄の小さな奇蹟) written by Midori Yoshino.

Outside and inside a Chōshi Electric Railway Line train, 2021
The southern terminus of the line, Tokawa Station, May 2021
Moto-Choshi Station under construction by army engineers circa 1913
A Chōshi Sightseeing Railway train between Moto-Choshi and Ashikajima stations hauled by locomotive No. 1