History
Matsudo Station opened on 25 December 1896 as a station on the Nippon Railway Tsuchiura Line, in what is now the city of Matsudo, Chiba. The line was nationalised on 1 November 1906, and was renamed the Jōban Line on 12 October 1909. After World War II, the Japanese Government Railways became the Japanese National Railways. Shin-Keisei Line services began on 21 April 1955. The station passed to East Japan Railway Company with the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987. On 1 April 2025, following the absorption of Shin-Keisei into Keisei Electric Railway, the former Shin-Keisei platforms came under Keisei operation.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
In fiscal 2019 Matsudo Station handled an average of 100,062 boarding passengers daily on the JR East side alone, making it the 39th-busiest station on the JR East network.