History
Ichikawa-Mama Station opened on 30 August 1914 as the eastern terminus of the Keisei Electric Tramway, then known as Ichikawa-Shinden. With the line's extension to Nakayama (now Keisei-Nakayama) on 3 November 1915 it became an intermediate station, and was renamed Ichikawa-Mama on 6 April 1921. As part of a sweeping rebuild begun in 1970, the original arrangement was restored to a quad-track island layout with overtake facilities and rebuilt with a bridge-style building, completed in December 1972. A platform-to-concourse lift was installed on 15 March 2008. From 27 April 2019 the operator began an annual seasonal promotion in which the station signs read "Ichikawa-Mama" — punning on the homophonous English word — until Mother's Day each year; the 2020 edition was cancelled because of COVID-19.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
In Keisei's early years the district north of the station served as the operator's nerve centre, with the company-run Tōkaen amusement park (famous for its chrysanthemum-doll displays), corporate offices, and the residence of founding president Teijirō Honda; a stone monument honouring Honda still stands at the station forecourt.