Chiba-Chūō Station (千葉中央駅) is an elevated station in Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture. Keisei Electric Railway runs it on the Keisei Chiba Line. It first opened on 17 July 1921 at another site.
History
The station was renamed Keisei Chiba Station (京成千葉駅) on 18 November 1931, when joint ticketing with other railways began. On 7 July 1945 an air raid on Chiba burned the station building.
On 10 February 1958 the station moved to its present site, where the former Japanese National Railways Honchiba Station had been. The move was part of a land readjustment for war-damaged areas, and the station opened early, before its buildings were finished. On 24 May 1967 the elevated double track between Shin-Chiba and Keisei Chiba was completed. On 1 December 1967 the west exit building of Keisei Chiba Station opened. On 10 August 1974 automatic ticket gates came into use.
On 1 April 1987 the station was renamed Chiba-Chūō Station (千葉中央駅). At the same time, the national railway's Chiba-ekimae station was renamed Keisei Chiba Station. On 1 April 1992 the Chiba Express Railway (千葉急行電鉄) opened its line from here to Omoridai (大森台), which made this station the boundary with Keisei. On 14 June 1996 a new station building, with floors above and below ground, was completed. It had the only escalator in Chiba Prefecture at the time. On 1 October 1998 the Chiba Express Railway was dissolved, and Keisei Electric Railway took over the line. On 6 September 2002 the Keisei Hotel Miramare opened on the east side. On 10 December 2006 Shin-Keisei trains began running one-way into the station, so Shin-Keisei cars could run on the Chiba Line.
In August 2018 work began on a new west exit building. On 29 October 2021 the Keisei Chiba Chūō Building opened at the west exit. On 31 March 2023 the station was renovated.
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