History
Shisui Station opened on 19 January 1897 as a combined passenger and freight stop on the privately owned Narita Railway. The line was nationalised on 1 September 1920, and the station continued on the Narita Line under Japanese National Railways. Scheduled freight service ended on 1 November 1961, and the station became unstaffed on 1 October 1970. JR East took over on 1 April 1987, and a new bridge-style station building completed in 1989 returned the stop to staffed operation. Automatic ticket gates entered service on 4 October 1995, Suica acceptance began on 18 November 2001, and the JR ticket office (Midori no Madoguchi) closed on 30 June 2022.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
From 1974 until the 1989 rebuild the station was served only by a single 1970-built footbridge and a wooden unstaffed depot, providing a striking visual contrast with the modern housing estates that had sprung up around the station during the same period.