Station

Keisei Chiba

京成千葉

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Keisei Chiba
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Timetable information

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Location

History

Keisei Chiba Station opened on 1 December 1967 in Chūō-ku, Chiba, as Kokutetsu-Chiba-eki-mae Station (“In Front of JNR Chiba Station”), on the Keisei Chiba Line, 12.3 kilometres from the line’s terminus at Keisei-Tsudanuma. With the 1987 break-up of Japanese National Railways the reference in the name became obsolete, and the stop was renamed to its present form on 1 April 1987. The Chiba Express Line, now the Keisei Chihara Line, began operations from here in April 1992. Station numbering was introduced across the Keisei network on 17 July 2010, assigning the station the code KS59. The station has two elevated opposed side platforms with the building underneath, and connects via escalators and a moving walkway to the Chiba Urban Monorail.

Notes

For its first nineteen years the station was named after the neighbouring station of another company — Kokutetsu Chiba-eki-mae, "In Front of JNR Chiba Station" — a reference that lost its meaning once Japanese National Railways gave way to JR; the station took its present name on 1 April 1987.

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