Minami-gyotoku Station
T19 · Tozai Line · Ichikawa, Chiba
Minami-gyotoku Station (南行徳)
The Tozai Line ran past this spot for years before it stopped here. When the viaduct across the Gyotoku flats was built, the engineers left the structure and the land ready for a station that was not yet justified: the surroundings were rice fields. Housing filled them, the neighboring stations grew crowded, construction finally began in February 1979, and T19 opened on 27 March 1981 as an infill station between Gyotoku and Urayasu.
The layout is a product of that: two elevated side platforms with a single ticket hall underneath at the midpoint, reached by stairs, escalators and elevators from both the north and south sides. A renovation begun in January 2011 and finished on 23 March 2012 added a solar generating system among other changes, and departure melodies followed on 11 June 2015. Like the rest of this end of the line, Minami-gyotoku is in Chiba rather than Tokyo, and trains continue onto Toyo Rapid and JR East tracks beyond the subway’s own metals.
Finding Minami-gyotoku on the signs
Every line gives the station its own letter-and-number code. You never have to read the Japanese name to find the right platform.
Station numbers at Minami-gyotoku
Tokyo signposts every platform, exit and train door with a letter and a two-digit number. Matching the number is faster than reading the name — and it is what you will see on the map, in announcements and on the platform edge.
First and last trains at Minami-gyotoku
Departure times come from the operators’ own GTFS timetables (ODPT GTFS Toei-Train-GTFS (version 20261009, valid 2026-03-14..2027-03-12) + TokyoMetro-Train-GTFS (version 20261008, valid 2026-09-19..2027-03-12)). Japan publishes two subway timetables: 平日 weekdays and 土休日 Saturdays, Sundays and national holidays. There is no separate Sunday timetable, and the December 30 – January 3 period runs the holiday timetable.
How often do trains run?
| Line | Weekdays, busiest hour | Sat / Sun / holidays, busiest hour |
|---|---|---|
| TTozai | 15 trains/hour (about one every 4 min) | 12 trains/hour |
Departures in one direction during the hour with the most trains at this station, counted in the operators’ timetable.
Transfers and connections
Only the Tozai Line stops here, and no other railway serves this station, so there is nothing to transfer to inside the station.
Accessibility
| Line | Step-free by elevator | Accessible toilet | Escalator | Exits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TTozai | Yes | Yes | Yes | 2 |
- Tozai Line: Step-free elevator route street-gate-platform (official “1-route by elevator”). Street elevator at exit(s): 北口. Operator page (checked Oct 20, 2026).
Taken from the operators’ own accessibility pages and nothing else. Tokyo Metro: the “1-route” (step-free street-gate-platform path by elevator, slope, stair lift or wheelchair escalator) is complete at all 180 stations; a separate list shows stations with an elevator-only 1-route.
What is near Minami-gyotoku Station?
Minami-gyotoku belongs to the city of Ichikawa, and the area it serves is residential reclaimed land laid out in blocks, with a bus rotary about 80 m from the station feeding routes toward Shin-Urayasu, Maihama and Mizue. The Coaster Museum is roughly 220 m away, and four or five neighborhood parks lie between 250 m and 400 m of the exits. There is little else: this is a station people use to leave in the morning and come home to at night.
| Place | Distance (straight line) | On foot, estimated |
|---|---|---|
| Coaster Museum コースター美術館 | 220 m | about 4 min |
| つつじ公園 | 250 m | about 4 min |
| 南行徳公園 | 300 m | about 5 min |
| 御手浜公園 | 300 m | about 5 min |
| ぎぼうし公園 | 330 m | about 5 min |
| 満世公園 | 400 m | about 6 min |
| 南行徳駅バスロータリー | 80 m | about 1 min |
Places from OpenStreetMap within 400 m of the station. The walking time is an estimate (straight line plus 30 %, 80 m a minute), not a measured route. © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Frequently asked questions
No. The station is in the city of Ichikawa in Chiba prefecture; the Tozai Line crosses the prefectural boundary and keeps the subway’s station numbering, so T19 is a subway station outside Tokyo.
It was planned as an infill station from the start. Space on the viaduct and the land around it were kept in reserve while the area was still farmland, and the station was only built — from February 1979, opening in March 1981 — once housing development had made the neighboring stations crowded.