Makuhari-Hongo

Weekday departures: 477/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 235/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 4:41 / 24:48 (00:48 next day)

Busiest hour in the available data: 7:00–8:00 (38)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.

Timetable data as of 4 May 2026.

The timetable data is incomplete for some or all lines at this station, so the weekday and Sat & holiday figures are departures in the available timetable data, not totals.

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• Sobu Main Line: timetable covers only part of the line

• Sobu Main Line: Tsudanuma ⇄ Makuhari

The JR East side of the station opened on 1 October 1981 — under the provisional name "Nishi-Makuhari" — when Japanese National Railways opened the Sōbu quad-track extension to Chiba; only Sōbu local trains stop here. JR East inherited the station at the 1 April 1987 privatisation. Keisei Electric Railway added its Chiba-Line platform alongside on 7 August 1991, making this one of the few places in Japan where JR East and Keisei share a single station concourse. Suica acceptance began on 18 November 2001 and PASMO on 18 March 2007. The legacy ticket office ("midori-no-madoguchi") closed on 28 February 2017, and JR-side smart platform doors are scheduled for 6 June 2026.

JR East and Keisei share a single overhead station building here — a configuration that exists at only a handful of other Japanese stations, including Nippori, Airport Terminal 2 (Kūkō-Dai-2-Biru), Narita Airport and Higashi-Matsudo.