Sakura (Chiba)

Weekday departures: 125/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 115/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:52 / 24:09 (00:09 next day)

Busiest hour in the available data: 8:00–9:00 (11)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026 to 5 May 2026: the timetables behind these figures were retrieved on different dates.

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:

• JR Narita Line Airport Branch: only trains from timetables filed under other lines
• Sobu Main Line: timetable covers only part of the line

• JR Narita Line Airport Branch: Shisui
• Sobu Main Line: Minami-Shisui ⇄ Monoi

Sakura Station opened on 20 July 1894 as the terminus of the private Sōbu Railway's first segment from Ichikawa. The Narita Railway opened its Sakura–Narita section on 19 January 1897, and the Sōbu Railway pushed east to Naruto on 1 May 1897. The Sōbu Railway was bought out on 1 September 1907, the station passing to the Imperial Railway Agency, and the Narita Railway was nationalised on 1 September 1920. The Sōbu and Narita lines between Chiba and Narita were electrified on 28 March 1968, with the Chiba–Sakura section doubled the same day. The present overhead station building opened in December 1985, and the platforms were rebuilt to two islands of four tracks with 15-car capacity in 1991 ahead of through-running to Narita Airport.

Sakura Station was once famous for platform ice-cream hawking: two shops, Ishidaya and Iseya, competed for arrivals on the Ryōgoku-Chōshi run, and as many as 30 sellers were said to swarm the platform when the 18:00 Ryōgoku-departed local pulled in.