History
Shiroi Station opened on 9 March 1979 as part of the Hokusō Kaihatsu Tetsudō (Hokusō Development Railway) Hokusō Line in Shiroi, Chiba Prefecture, serving the centre of the planned Chiba New Town. The operator was renamed Hokusō-Kōdan Line on 1 April 1988 and again to the present Hokusō Railway Hokusō Line on 1 July 2004. The station was assigned the number HS10 when station numbering was introduced across the Hokusō Line on 17 July 2010. From 25 March 2022 the stop carries the unofficial secondary name "Tokimeki Nashi-no-Sato" ("the pear-orchard town"). The station building straddles a deep cut for National Route 464.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The station is read "Shiroi" rather than the more common "Shirai" — a quirk shared with the surrounding Shiroi City and neighbouring Nishi-Shiroi Station, and one that the operator marks by writing the easily confused nearby Keisei Usui Station's name in kana to prevent mis-boarding.