History
Sakura Station opened on 20 July 1894 as the terminus of the private Sōbu Railway's first segment from Ichikawa. The Naritetsu Railway extended westward to Narita on 19 January 1897, and the Sōbu Railway pushed east to Naruto on 1 May 1897. Sōbu was nationalised on 1 September 1907 and Naritetsu on 1 September 1920, both becoming Imperial Railway Agency lines. The Sōbu and Narita lines between Chiba and Narita were electrified on 28 March 1968, with the Chiba-Sakura section doubled the same year. The present elevated station building opened in December 1985, and the platforms were rebuilt to two islands of four tracks with 15-car capacity in 1991 ahead of through-running to Narita Airport.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Sakura Station was once famous for platform ice-cream hawking: two shops, Ishidaya and Iseya, competed for arrivals on the Ryōgoku-Chōshi run, and as many as 30 sellers were said to swarm the platform when the 18:00 Ryōgoku-departed local pulled in.