History
Umesato Station opened on 9 May 1911 with the Chiba Prefectural Railway's Noda Line extension from Noda-machi (today Noda-shi) to Kashiwa. Chiba's prefectural railway was transferred to Hokusō Railway on 1 August 1923; the operator was renamed Sōbu Railway in November 1929, and Tōbu Railway absorbed the line on 1 March 1944. A new overhead station building opened on 31 May 2007 and the east-side plaza followed in October 2008. In April 2011 the through track was lengthened by roughly 0.9 km toward Noda-shi to allow Kashiwa-bound trains to depart without waiting for opposing services, a configuration also adopted at neighbouring Minami-Sakurai.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station name derives from the former Umesato village, christened in 1889 to evoke the "five petals of plum" formed by the merger of five hamlets.