History
Sakaechō Station opened on 24 March 1999 on the Chiba Urban Monorail's Line 1 in Sakaechō, Chūō-ku, Chiba City. It is station CM16, located 2.0 km from the line's terminus at Chiba Station. The Yoshikawa river runs directly below the station, and the surrounding area was once one of Kantō's leading entertainment districts when both the JNR and Keisei Chiba stations stood nearby; postwar urban planning relocated those stations to their current sites, and the Sakaechō area has since become a concentrated night-life and amusement quarter. PASMO became usable on 14 March 2009. The station has a single island platform serving two tracks on an elevated structure, and is unstaffed.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
On the site of the present Chiba Civic Hall, near the east-exit side of Sakaechō Station, stood the former JNR Chiba Station until 1963; a stone monument carved with the words "Chiba Station was once here" stands at the entrance to the building's car park as a reminder of the old station's location.