is a train station on the Uchibō and Kominato lines, operated by the East Japan Railway Company

East Japan Railway Company

is the largest passenger railway company in the world and one of the seven Japan Railways Group companies. The company name is officially abbreviated as JR East in English, and as in Japanese. The company's headquarters are in Yoyogi, Shibuya, Tokyo....

 and Kominato Railway. It is located in Ichihara, Chiba

Ichihara, Chiba

is a city located in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. As of August 2010, the city has an estimated population of 279,080, with a population density of 758 persons per km². The total area of Ichihara was 368.20 km²...

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Station layout

The station has a different address for each company. The address for JR East is 2-1-11 Goi-Chūō-Nishi, Ichihara, Chiba, and the address for the Kominato Railway is 1-1-2 Goi-Chūō-Higashi, Ichihara, Chiba. The station has four tracks with two island platform

Island platform

An island platform is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway interchange...

s, one for the Uchibō line and another for the Kominato line.

Platforms

Usage

In 2005, there were approximately 20,307 passengers per day using JR East trains and 1,810 passengers per day using Kominato Railway trains at Goi station.

Surroundings

• Ichihara City Hall Goi Branch
• Sunplaza Ichihara
• Ichihara Seaside Stadium
  Ichihara Seaside Stadium
  is a football and athletics stadium located in Ichihara, Japan. Completed in 1987, the stadium consists of a large main stand and several smaller stands in a ring. Approximately 500 seats are covered; the cold Ichihara winds tend to create an uncomfortable experience for most patrons.From 1993...
  
  
• Goi Train Facility
• Ito-Yokado
  Ito-Yokado
  is a Japanese General Merchandise Store, part of Seven & I Holdings Co. There are 174 Ito-Yokado stores operating in Japan. The group has expanded to China, where they formed a joint venture with Wangfujing Department Store and China Huafu Trade & Development Group Corp. to open one of five stores...
  
   Ichihara
• Chiba Prefectural Keiyō High School
• Tōkai University
  Tokai University
  is a private university in Tokyo, Japan. It was established in 1943 by Shigeyoshi Matsumae, who had formerly been the engineering president of the Ministry of Communications...
  
   Bōyō High School
• Kantō Anzen Eisei Gijutsu Center
• Ichihara Sea Fishing Facility
• Matsuya Gyudon
  Gyudon
  , , is a Japanese dish consisting of a bowl of rice topped with beef and onion simmered in a mildly sweet sauce flavored with dashi , soy sauce and mirin . It also often includes shirataki noodles, and is sometimes topped with a raw egg...
  
   restaurant

Adjacent stations

External links

• Goi Station information, JR East. Retrieved on 17 July 2008.