Chiba Newtown Chuo

History

Chiba New Town Chūō Station opened on 19 March 1984 as the temporary terminus of the Urban Development Corporation's Chiba New Town Line at the time of the Komuro extension. On 1 April 1988 second-sector services on the line were taken over by Hokusō Development Railway (now Hokusō Railway). The station became an intermediate stop on 1 April 1995 with the extension to Inzai-Makinohara. On 1 July 2004 the corporate name changed to Hokusō Railway, with infrastructure ownership transferred to Chiba Newtown Railway. On 17 July 2010 the Keisei Narita Sky Access opened on the shared tracks and the Access Express began calling; the station was designated HS12. Hokusō handles day-to-day operations.

History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.

Notes

Provision was once made for the never-built Narita Shinkansen to pass through Chiba New Town Chūō; the broad cleared corridor immediately north of the station, now partly occupied by the Kita-Chiba Road and solar panels, was preserved for that abandoned line.