History
Narita Airport Terminal 1 Station occupies tunnels and platforms originally constructed for the never-completed Narita Shinkansen. After the shinkansen project was formally abandoned in 1986, the infrastructure beneath Terminal 1 was converted to conventional gauge, and the underground station opened on 19 March 1991 jointly serving JR East and Keisei Electric Railway. The earlier Keisei-only Narita Airport Station about 1 km away was renamed Higashi-Narita on the same day. Keisei platforms were segregated into Main Line and Sky Access concourses on 17 July 2010 when Skyliner limited-express services began running over the new Sky Access route, and the station picked up Keisei numbering KS42 on the same date. Platform-edge doors were progressively introduced from 2020.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Because Keisei Main Line and Narita Sky Access trains charge different fares for the same route, Main Line passengers must pass through a separate ticket barrier inside the station to enforce the fare split.