History
Sōgosandō Station opened on 1 April 1928 as Sōgo Station on the Keisei Main Line in Shimoiwahashi, Shisui, Inba District, Chiba; the original platforms stood closer to Keisei-Narita, just outside the Sōgo tunnel mouth. After the nearby Seisō Electric Railway closed its competing Sōgo stop on 11 December 1944 as a wartime non-essential line, the Keisei station became the closest railhead to Tōshōji temple (the Sōgo Reidō). It was renamed Sōgosandō on 1 July 1951 and relocated to its present site on 24 January 1982. The 10 December 2006 timetable revision added it to the limited-express stopping pattern. The adjacent Sōgo depot — comprising the Sōgo car-inspection works and railway works — handles a number of early-morning and late-night services that start and finish here.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The temple approach (sandō) on the west side of the station leads to Tōshōji, also known as Sōgo Reidō, which holds the grave of the 17th-century peasant martyr Sakura Sōgo (Kiuchi Sōgorō).