History
Chiba-Chūō Station opened on 17 July 1921 as 'Chiba Station' of the Keisei Electric Railway, on the site of today's Chiba Central Park. It was renamed Keisei-Chiba Station on 18 November 1931 when through-fare arrangements were made with JNR. The station building burned down in the Chiba air raid of 7 July 1945. As part of post-war reconstruction it was relocated on 10 February 1958 to the former site of JNR's Hon-Chiba Station, with a four-storey building topped in 1958 and elevated double-tracking on the Shin-Chiba–Keisei-Chiba section completed on 24 May 1967. It took its present name on 1 April 1987 when JNR's Chiba-Eki-Mae was renamed Keisei-Chiba. The Chiba Kyūkō Line opened from here on 1 April 1992.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
Because the Chihara Line was originally operated by the separate Chiba Kyūkō Electric Railway, fare-distance calculations on the Keisei network terminate at Chiba-Chūō; through-fares between Keisei's main network and the Chihara Line are computed in two segments at the station.