Keisei-Owada

History

Keisei-Ōwada opened on 9 December 1926 simply as Ōwada Station, making it the oldest station within the present-day city of Yachiyo, Chiba. It was renamed Keisei-Ōwada on 18 November 1931. The platforms were lengthened in 1968, when a tail-track was added on the Katsutadai side, enabling the station to be used as a terminus for some inbound services from Keisei-Ueno. Until the 1996 timetable revision, daytime services regularly turned back here every forty minutes. Station numbering was introduced across the Keisei network on 17 July 2010, with Keisei-Ōwada assigned KS30, and barrier-free works completed on 17 March 2018 also converted the formerly part-time north exit into a full-day entrance.

History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.

Notes

The station's stamp depicts Chōmyō-ji, a small temple a short walk away that contains the grave of Yaoya Oshichi, the Edo-period greengrocer's daughter executed by burning in 1683 whose story inspired centuries of kabuki, jōruri and ukiyo-e adaptations.