History
Shimōsa-Tachibana Station opened on 11 March 1933 as a Japanese Government Railways station, handling both passengers and freight, when the Narita Line was extended from Sasagawa to Matsugishi. Freight services were suspended on 1 October 1962, parcel handling ended on 26 September 1970, and the station became unstaffed on 15 March 1972. It passed to JR East with the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987, joined the Tokyo suburban Suica zone on 14 March 2009, and on 1 April 2017 reverted to fully unstaffed operation after a period as a simple-commission station. The station retains its original wooden station building west of the tracks and has a single side platform, making it (with Narita-Airport Terminal 2) one of only two non-passing stations on the entire Narita Line.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
The station still uses its original 1933 wooden station building, set west of the tracks at the foot of the platform stairs.