Narita Airport Terminal 1 (Narita Airport) Station (成田線の駅名標-『駅名標あつめ。』
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station located beneath Terminal 1 of

Narita International Airport , also known as Tokyo-Narita International Airport or simply Narita Airport, formerly and originally known as , is the secondary international airport serving the Greater Tokyo Area, the only other one being Haneda Airport (HND). It is about e ...

in Narita, Chiba,

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. The station is shared between

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(JR East) and 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 ...

Station layout

The JR East portion of the station has one

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. The Keisei portion of the station has two island platforms: one serves one track (No. 1) and the other serves two. Each of the two tracks of the latter has two positions for trains, which are separately numbered (one is numbered 2 and 4, and the other is 3 and 5). On 17 July 2010, the Keisei Line platforms and concourses were segregated: one portion is for Narita Sky Access Line trains (including ''

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'' limited express services) and the other portion for Keisei Main Line trains. Passengers traveling only on the Keisei Main Line must pass through an additional ticket barrier prior to entering the platforms, so as to enforce the separate fare structure that will be in place for Narita Sky Access Line trains.

JR East

The station has a ''

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'' staffed ticket office.

Keisei Electric Railway

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History

Originally built for the planned

Narita Shinkansen The was a planned high-speed ''Shinkansen'' ("bullet train") line proposed to connect Narita International Airport with Tokyo Station. The project was abandoned in 1987, although parts of the planned route are used by the Keisei Narita Airport L ...

, the station opened on 19 March 1991.JR East: Narita Airport Station information
Retrieved on 18 September 2008. Before this, there was also a station named Narita Airport Station, which was served only by Keisei and connected with the airport terminal by bus. The former station was renamed

Higashi-Narita Station The Higashi-Narita Station () 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 railway Shibayama Railway. Lines Higashi-Narita Stat ...

on the same day the present airport station was opened.　 On 17 July 2010, the same day that ''

'' limited express services began operations on the

Narita Sky Access Line The is a Japanese railway line connecting Keisei-Takasago Station and Narita Airport Terminal 1 Station. The entire route from Keisei Ueno Station, including the Keisei Main Line as far as Keisei-Takasago, is branded . The Keisei Electric Ra ...

, the layout of Keisei Line platforms and concourses was changed. For details, see "Station layout" section above. The station also received a station number for Keisei services on that date; Narita Airport Terminal 1 Station was assigned station number KS42.

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