History
Sakuragi Station opened on 28 March 1988 on Line 2 of the Chiba Urban Monorail in Wakaba Ward, Chiba City. It sits about 9.0 km from the line's Chiba terminus and serves the residential neighbourhood of Sakuragi 7-chōme. The elevated stop has two opposed side platforms, each 66 m long for four-car operation, with lifts linking ground level to the concourse and the concourse to both platforms. A secondary station name, "Kasori Shell Mounds", reflects the nearby Kasori archaeological site, a Jōmon-period shell midden about 10 minutes on foot from the south exit. PASMO interoperability arrived on 14 March 2009, and toilets were converted to Western style in January 2022.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Sakuragi carries the secondary name "Kasori Shell Mounds" after the Jōmon-period midden about 10 minutes' walk to the south — one of Japan's largest prehistoric shell-mound sites.