Keisei Kanamachi Station
railway station in Katsushika, Tokyo, Japan
Keisei Kanamachi Station (京成金町駅, Keisei Kanamachi-eki) is a railway station on the Keisei Kanamachi Line in Katsushika, Tokyo, Japan, operated by the private railway operator Keisei Electric Railway. The station is located adjacent to Kanamachi Station on the Joban Line operated by JR East.
Lines
Keisei Kanamachi Station is the terminus of the 2.5 km Keisei Kanamachi Line from Keisei Takasago.
Station layout
The terminus station is composed of a single platform serving one track.
Platform
History
Keisei Kanamachi station opened on 21 October 1913, initially named Kanamachi Station. The station was renamed Keisei Kanamachi Station on 18 November 1931.
Station numbering was introduced to all Keisei Line stations on 17 June 2010. Keisei Kanamachi was assigned station number KS51.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Keisei Kanamachi Station” as railway station in Katsushika, Tokyo, Japan. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as railway station in Katsushika, Tokyo, Japan. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6383841. Authority coordinates are 35.769, 139.870. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1913, 1931 and 2010.
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This entry incorporates text from “Keisei Kanamachi Station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.