Ashikajima Station
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Japan
 Ashikajima Station 海鹿島駅 | |||||||||||
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 The station entrance in July 2023 | |||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||
| Location | 8505 Kobatake-shinmachi, Chōshi-shi, Chiba-ken 288-0021 Japan | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 35°43′18″N 140°51′49″E / 35.72167°N 140.86361°E | ||||||||||
| Operated by | Choshi Electric Railway | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | Choshi Electric Railway Line | ||||||||||
| Distance | 3.6 km from Chōshi | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 (1 side platform) | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 1 | ||||||||||
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| Parking | No | ||||||||||
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| Status | Unstaffed | ||||||||||
| Station code | CD07 | ||||||||||
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| Opened | December 1913 | ||||||||||
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| FY2010 | 147 daily | ||||||||||
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Ashikajima Station (海鹿島駅, Ashikajima-eki) is a railway station on the privately operated Chōshi Electric Railway Line in Chōshi, Chiba, Japan. The station is the easternmost station in the Kanto region, and a plaque erected in February 2012 stands on the station platform indicating this.[1]
Ashikajima Station is served by the 6.4-kilometre (4.0 mi) Chōshi Electric Railway Line from Chōshi to Tokawa. It is located between Nishi-Ashikajima and Kimigahama stations, and is a distance of 3.6 km (2.2 mi) from Chōshi Station.[2]
Station layout
The station is unstaffed,[2] and consists of a side platform serving a single track.
View of the station from the platform side in October 2015
The plaque describing the station as the easternmost station in the Kanto Region
History
Ashikajima Station first opened in December 1913 as a station on the Chōshi Sightseeing Railway (銚子遊覧鉄道, Chōshi Yūran Tetsudō), which operated a distance of 5.9 km (3.7 mi) between Chōshi and Inuboh.[3] The railway closed in November 1917,[3] but was reopened on 5 July 1923 as the Chōshi Railway.[2] It was so named (literally "sea lion island") because of the large numbers of sea lions seen on the coast up until the 1950s.[4] The present-day station structure was built in 1951.[5]
Ashikajima became an unstaffed station from 1 January 2008.[2]
Passenger statistics
Surrounding area
- Ashikajima beach[4]
