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The Kazusa-Kameyama Station is a terminal of the JR Kururi Line, and it is located at Kimitsu City, Chiba Prefecture, Japan.
It is near the Lake Kameyama, which is a dam lake built above the Obitsu River.
I took the this movie of scenery around the station, which is the highest (99 meters above sea level) in the Chiba Prefecture.
The old wooden one-story house is the Kazusa-Kameyama station building.
There are some parking, bus stop, and privately owned shops around the station. It is really quiet.
As previously explained, it takes about 10 minutes on foot from the station to the Dam Lake Kameyama.
It is the largest dam lake in the Chiba. It has an area of 1.39 square kilometers, which is as large as the Imperial Palace in Tokyo.
You can enjoy boat fishing in the Lake Kameyama, where black bass, smelt, and rainbow trout lives.
With luck, you can watch the tailwater up to 495 cubic meters per second discharging from the four floodgates.
It is not so high (34.5 meters), but I was petrified because the bar is very low.
The topography around the lake is complicated and many hikers come here during foliage season.
I come back from the Lake Kameyama and enter into the station.
There is a train in one or two hours. The first train departs at 05:08, the last train at 21:02, all trains run to Kisarazu.
There is an automatic ticket machine, but it doesn't deal with "PASMO" and the "SUICA" IC card.
There are information for tourist, poster and pamphlet of JR EAST.
Station staff is assigned at the Kazusa-Kameyama, but the wicket is closed while no trains come. The atmosphere is desolate station.
I found a nest of swallows.
There are two track along the platform but trains use only track 2 in the back from the station.
The Kururi Line is supposed to extend east to the Ohara station on the Sotobo Line.
However, the extension plan halted after the open of Kazusa-Kameyama in 1936, so the rail ends at the Kazusa-Kameyama. * The uncompleted route between Kazusa-Nakano and Ohara was built as Kihara Line (Isumi Line).
Croft and mountain forest are just "dead end" from the buffer stop.
The platform has only two-car-long. When over-three-car-long train comes, only doors on the first and second car will open.
The paint on the station board is cracked.
The width of the platform is not large, but it may be enough for the station, which has a a daily ridership of 90 people (in 2010).
The restroom on the train is closed because of lack of sewage treatment system.