History
Kamagaya-Daibutsu Station opened on 8 January 1949 on the Shin-Keisei Railway's Shin-Keisei Line in Kamagaya, Chiba Prefecture, and takes its name from the Amida Buddha statue beside its north exit. The Ministry of Construction's Kantō region included it in 1998 among the area's 100 most distinguished stations, citing the link between the name and the historic statue. The station number SL13 was applied in February 2014. On 1 April 2025 Shin-Keisei Railway was absorbed into Keisei Electric Railway, making this a station on Keisei's Matsudo Line, and the number was changed to KS76. Trains once turned back here from Keisei-Tsudanuma, with about half terminating during the through-running era with the Hokusō and Kōdan lines; the turn-back point has since been removed.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
After hometown player Ikuhiro Kiyota of the Chiba Lotte Marines won both Best Nine and Golden Glove awards in 2015, a bronze plaque of his hand-print was installed inside the station in June 2016.