History
Shin-Matsudo Station opened on 1973-04-01 as a JNR station, inaugurated together with the Jōban Line stops and the new Musashino Line. At that point it was the terminus of the Musashino Line; that changed on 1978-10-02, when the line was extended to Nishi-Funabashi and Shin-Matsudo became an intermediate station. On 1982-01-10 the Sōbu-Nagareyama Railway (now Ryūtetsu) moved its Kōya Station to its present site across the road, making Shin-Matsudo an interchange. It passed to JR East at the 1987-04-01 privatisation. Automatic ticket gates began operating on 1992-07-14, and Suica IC service became available on 2001-11-18. Accessibility upgrades were completed in 2010, and platform doors entered service on tracks 1 and 2 (the Jōban Line slow-line platforms) on 2021-12-19.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
On New Year’s Eve, when JR East runs all-night service, the Shin-Matsudo–Mabashi loop becomes the longest possible “one-stroke” ticketed ride in greater Tokyo, drawing crowds of railfans.