History
Shibamata Station was originally opened on 17 December 1899 as a stop on the human-powered Taishaku Jinsha Tetsudo light railway. The present Keisei station opened on 3 November 1912 as a temporary terminus of the Keisei Electric Tramway, and became an intermediate station when the line was extended to Kanamachi on 21 October 1913. Keisei was selected for the Kanto-no-Eki Hyakusen list in 1997 for the tile-roofed design that evokes the Otoko wa Tsurai yo film series set in the neighbourhood. The Shibamata to Keisei-Takasago section was reconfigured from double to single-track-pair operation on 5 July 2010, and a station-front retail building partially opened on 26 February 2021.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
A bronze statue of actor Kiyoshi Atsumi as the fictional Tora-san stands in front of the station, unveiled in 1999 after both Atsumi's death and the end of the Otoko wa Tsurai yo film series; a companion statue of Sakura, Tora-san's sister played by Chieko Baisho, was added in 2017.