The is a 7.1 km branchline in

Chiba Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Chiba Prefecture has a population of 6,278,060 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of . Chiba Prefecture borders Ibaraki Prefecture to the north, Saitama Prefecture to t ...

, Japan, operated by the

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operator

Keisei Electric Railway The (stylized as K'SEI since 2001) is a major private railway in Chiba Prefecture and Tokyo, Japan. The name ''Keisei'' is the combination of the kanji 京 from and 成 from , which the railway's main line connects. The combination uses diffe ...

. It branches off from the Keisei Main Line at

Keisei Narita Station is a passenger railway station located in the city of Narita, Chiba Prefecture Japan, operated by the private railway company, Keisei Electric Railway. It is within walking distance of the JR East Narita Station. Lines Keisei Narita Station is ...

Higashi-Narita Station The Higashi-Narita Station( ja, 東成田駅, ) is a passenger railway station in the city of Narita, Chiba, Japan, operated jointly by the private railway operator Keisei Electric Railway, and the third sector company Shibayama Railway. Lines ...

(the former Narita Airport Station).

Stations

History

The line opened on 21 May 1978. Keisei plans to introduce

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on this line, as well as the

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, Chihara, and

Shibayama Railway is a third-sector railway company in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. It operates Japan's shortest independent railway line,� ...

lines and by the end of November 2022.

References

{{coord, 35, 46, 28, N, 140, 22, 55, E, region:JP_type:landmark_source:kolossus-jawiki, display=title Higashi-Narita Line Railway lines in Chiba Prefecture