Ashikajima Station
Railway station in Chōshi, Chiba Prefecture, Japan From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Railway station in Chōshi, Chiba Prefecture, Japan From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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]
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Location | 8505 Kobatake-shinmachi, Chōshi-shi, Chiba-ken 288-0021 Japan | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 35°43′18″N 140°51′49″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 | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
Opened | December 1913 | ||||||||||
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FY2010 | 147 daily | ||||||||||
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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]
The station is unstaffed,[2] and consists of a side platform serving a single track.
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]
In fiscal 2010, the station was used by an average of 147 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).[6] Passenger figures for previous years are as shown below.
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