History
Higashi-Narita Station opened on 21 May 1978 as Narita Airport Station, the terminus of the Keisei Main Line at the new airport, which had begun flight operations the previous day. The station sat inside the airport perimeter but did not connect directly to the terminals; passengers used a paid shuttle bus or walked to the Terminal 1 building. On 19 March 1991 the Narita Airport Rapid Railway opened on infrastructure originally built for the abandoned Narita Shinkansen, taking JR East and Keisei trains directly into the terminals. The former main line between Keisei-Narita and the airport was split off as the Higashi-Narita Line and the station was renamed Higashi-Narita. The Shibayama Railway opened on 27 October 2002, making the station a Keisei–Shibayama joint-use facility, and the 26 October 2019 timetable revision eliminated the last scheduled trains terminating here.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Higashi-Narita's disused 'Express' platforms — closed when the line was rebranded in 1991 — still carry station signs reading 'Narita Airport' and crumbling advertising posters from the year of the renaming, including a Tobu Spacia ad aimed at foreign tourists.