Midori-dai Station

Midori-dai Station
Midoridai Station
みどり台駅
Keisei Midoridai sta 001.jpg
Midoridai Station
Location
Prefecture Chiba
(See other stations in Chiba)
City Chiba
Ward Inage
Neighborhood etc. 1-7-1Midori-cho
Postal Code 263 - 0023
(in Japanese) 千葉県千葉市稲毛区緑町1-7-1
History
Year opened 1923
Former names Kurosuna Station
Hama-Kaigan, Teidai Kogakubu-mae, Kogakubu-mae Station
Present name since 1971
Rail services
Station number(s) KS56
Operator(s) Keisei Electric Railway
Line(s) Keisei Chiba Line
Statistics 6,593 passengers/day (2009)

Midoridai Station (みどり台駅 Midoridai-eki?) is a railway station operated by the Keisei Electric Railway located in Inage-ku, Chiba Japan. It is 9.9 kilometers from the terminus of the Keisei Chiba Line at Keisei-Tsudanuma Station.

Contents

History

Midoridai Station was opened on February 22, 1922 as Hama Kaigan Station (浜海岸駅 Hama-Kaigan-eki?). On April 1, 1942, it changed its name to Teidai Kogakubu-mae (帝大工学部前駅 Teidai Kogakubu-mae eki?), after the engineering campus of Tokyo Imperial University located nearby. After World War II, university dropped the name “Imperial”, and the station was renamed Kogakubu-mae (工学部前駅 Kogakubu-mae eki?) according. It was renamed once again on May 1, 1951 to Kurosuna Station (黒砂駅 Kurosuna-eki?). It assumed its present name on October 1, 1971.

Lines

Layout

Midoridai Station has two opposed side platforms connected by an overpass.

Platforms

1 Keisei Chiba Line Keisei-Tsudanuma ・ Keisei Makuhari
2 Keisei Chiba Line ŌmoridaiChiharadai

Adjacent stations

« Service »
Keisei Chiba Line
Keisei Inage - Nishinobuto

External links

References

  1. ^ (in Japanese) JTB Timetable No. 979 (August 2007). Tokyo: JTB Corporation. p. 803. 


Coordinates: 35°37′30″N 140°05′51″E / 35.6250°N 140.0976°E / 35.6250; 140.0976