Narita International Airport Corporation owns a 68.40% majority stake in Shibayama Railway as of March 2019.

[5] Most Shibayama Railway trains provide local service to Keisei Narita Station past Higashi-Narita, and express trains operate during rush hours through the Keisei Line from Haneda Airport Terminal 1·2 Station.

[13] However, the planned railway line was forced to be extended by a further 0.2 km (220 yards) due to problems with buying land in 2000, and the name of the new station was chosen to be Shibayama-Chiyoda on the same year.

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport has recommended studying an extension into central Shibayama Town.

[3] However, the Kurama-dera Cable is the shortest cable car line in Japan with a length of 207 meters (226 yards),[17] and Seinō Railway operates the shortest freight-only railway line with an operational length of 1.3 km (0.8 mi).