History
Tendai Station opened on 12 June 1991 on Line 2 of the Chiba Urban Monorail, about 2.5 km north of the line's Chiba terminus. The straddle-beam monorail is one of the few of its type in commercial passenger service worldwide, and Tendai's elevated platforms sit above National Route 126 in a quiet residential district of Inage Ward. PASMO interoperability was introduced across the monorail on 14 March 2009. A station building, skip Tendai, was developed by JR East Urban Development on the former JR Tendai company-housing site to the east of the platforms. The surrounding area, west of the platforms toward Nishi-Chiba, is a designated educational district crowded with universities and schools.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Tendai Station and the surrounding blocks sit on the former grounds of the Imperial Japanese Army Infantry School, repurposed for housing and education after the war.