Chiba-Minato

Weekday departures: 275/day+ · Sat & holiday departures: 99/day+

First / last train (weekday): 4:54 / 24:33

Busiest hour: 8:00–9:00 (23)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map. Some lines at this station are not yet in our schedule data, so these counts are a minimum.

• JR Keiyo Line: Inage-Kaigan ⇄ Soga

Chiba-Minato Station opened on 3 March 1986 as Chibakō Station on the JNR Keiyō Line; from the start, route maps and rollsigns rendered the name as 'Chiba-Minato' to avoid the alternative reading 'Chibakō'. The station passed to JR East on 1 April 1987. The Keiyō Line was extended to Soga on 1 December 1988, and the spelling was formally aligned to 'Chiba-Minato' on 14 March 1992. The Chiba Urban Monorail Line 1 opened from here on 1 August 1995. Daytime Keiyō Line rapid services began stopping on 2 December 2000, and all rapid services from 1 December 2002. Suica acceptance began at the JR station on 18 November 2001.

When the Keiyō Line opened on 3 March 1986 the station's original Sino-Japanese name '千葉港' was ambiguous in reading — operators printed signs as 'Chiba-Minato' from day one to prevent the alternative 'Chibakō', and the formal name change to the hiragana form did not arrive until 1992.