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US Air Force Kashiwa Communications Station (Kashiwa)

Japan / Chiba / Kashiwa
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Closed US Air Force base in Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan. Returned to Japan.

Urban Exploration here: (Translated by Google)
translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://hom...

(Original) home.f01.itscom.net/spiral/ame/ame01.html

I may be completely wrong about this. Sorry.
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Coordinates:   35°53'51"N   139°56'26"E

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  • wa5bru at yahoo.com (guest)
    I do not believe that this is the former Kashiwa Communication Station. I was stationed at the site in 1965 and 1966. My memory is that the site was between Kashiwa and Toyoshiki. The site (formerly US Army's Camp Tomlinson) was located on a the remains of a WWII Japanese military airfield. Many of the functional areas (orderly room, mess hall, library, movie theater, BX, etc.) were located inside the one remaining aircraft hanger. The hanger was located at the Southwest corner of the property. Enlisted barracks were in an H-shaped single-story building immediately to the East and NCO/Officer's quarters were to the East of the enlisted barracks. See map: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kashiwa_cst_general_site_map.rev.png My eyes can find no trace of the old station on current maps/satellite views. Perhaps someone from the neighborhood remembers the old "Musen Campo".
  • Leo (guest)
    I was at Camp Tomlinson from Summer of 1957 through January 1959. I was a microwave repairman and I remember its layout as you stated. I tried to find it again during the Summer of 2001. I found what looked like the microwave tower, with the microwave building still standing. Japanese guards were stationed at the gate to it then. I was told that a new college had been built on the old air field and a huge soccer stadium was located where the old hanger and barracks were.
  • bobbygee (guest)
    I was stationed at Kashiwa CST in 1969-70 as a microwave tech. The outline of the site in the plat plan at the wikipedia site shown above matches the present outline of the Kashiwa campus of the University of Tokyo almost exactly. The station and tower site apparently were just about where the soccer stadium is now at just about the coordinates shown above. The hanger, barracks and senior NCO housing were at the extreme southwest corner of the site and the present campus. The only thing left of the site that is recognizable from 1970 is the old access road to the site from Kashiwa street (Route 47).
  • Lars Myrin (guest)
    I was stationed at Kashiwa as a radio transmitter repairman 1960 - 1961. We were only about 50 -60 GI's there and 2 Officers who commuted to camp ZAma every day.
  • Patrick McGuire (guest)
    I was at Camp Tomlinson in 1959. Worked in the power station.
  • Don White (guest)
    I was stationed at Kashiwa Camp 1967-1970. Met and married my wife there. The most exciting time was response to the capture of the Pueblo. So sad to see it all gone when I returned April 2015.
  • George Ciot (guest)
    I was stationed At Kashiwa from 1967 to 1969. The assignment was changed to a short tour while I was there and we were given a choice to take the short or long tour, I took the long tour. I was a Ground Radio Communications Equipment Repairman (30454). We long haul point to point transmitters, facsimile and ground to air transmitters that we took care of. We did the freq changes and tuning, some PM and assisted the Japanese workers with the major repairs. When they changed us to the short tour we got free movies at our theater and I ran the theater at that point until I left. When the Pueblo got captured we were put on 12 hor shifts and were confined to the site. The Japanese pretty much ran everything in the hanger with military supervisors.
  • Bernie Nebres (guest)
    Stationed there as a ground radio repairman 1967-68. I remember the the hanger had the mess hall, theater, BX and a bar. Bartendress was Yuki. I didn't do a damn thing while I was there. The local japanese did everything. Wasn't there very long, got shipped to Fuchu for being a bad airman. Names from the past: Airmen Goode, Neal, Dahmen, Roddy and a few more I don't remember. Great memories.
  • Ken Noack (guest)
    Stationed there 1960-1961. Worked in F9C
  • Warren Masui (guest)
    I was wondering there from '59 thru' 61. I kinda remember a Pietz there. I worked as a microwave radio repairman.
  • Lee (guest)
    I was there in the Army, 1963 got sent to Vietnam, bummer. I was a microwave repairman. I miss it still. Msg Lee J Walker
  • Mike Lynch (guest)
    I arrived in October '66, initially in Microwave then became the F9C guy. It was deactivated and uninstalled in '67 or '68. Our once-a-week tech rep was Mr. Hom.
  • P. Peitz (guest)
    I was stationed at the old Camp Tomlinson in 1959-60. Just to add, the site was a Kamikaze training base during WWII. An interesting side story: the Army employee that managed our little PX in the old hangar was in training at the base in the closing days of the war and would have flown his "one and only" mission in just a couple of weeks. (posted by P. Peitz)
  • wa5bru (guest)
    Ah, you speak of Frank Fukumoto. A really nice guy. He was still running the mini-BX in '65-'66 when I was there in the F9C and microwave sections.
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