History
Keisei-Usui Station opened on 9 December 1926 as Usui Station, located beside what is now National Route 296 on the Sakura-bound side of a level crossing. It was renamed Keisei-Usui on 18 November 1931 to disambiguate from a JR station of the same name. As part of the surrounding land readjustment project, on 1 October 1978 the station was rebuilt with a bridge-style concourse and physically relocated about 580 metres towards Shizu Station. The on-site shopping complex, branded ViM, opened in 1996. Station numbering was rolled out across the Keisei network on 17 July 2010, assigning Keisei-Usui the code KS34, and the 2025 timetable revision introduced rapid services originating and terminating here.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
Since 1988, when the JR Jōyamada Line in Fukuoka was abolished along with its own Usui Station, Keisei-Usui has been the sole station in Japan whose name reads simply 'Usui' (臼井); plaques in both station forecourts also commemorate it as the school-commute station of baseball legend Shigeo Nagashima.