Shimodate Station

Shimodate Station (下館駅, Shimodate-eki) is a junction passenger railway station located in the city of Chikusei, Ibaraki Prefecture in Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East), together with the private railway operator Kantō Railway and the third sector Mooka Railway. It is also a freight depot for the Japan Freight Railway Company (JR Freight).

Shimodate Station 下館駅
Shimodate Station, March 2012
General information
Location	Otsu 86, Chikusei-shi, Ibaraki-ken 308-0041 Japan
Coordinates	36.3037129°N 139.9783516°E / 36.3037129; 139.9783516
Operated by	JR East Mooka Railway Kantō Railway JR Freight
Line(s)	■Mito Line ■ Mooka Line ■ Jōsō Line
Other information
Status	Staffed (Midori no Madoguchi )
Website	Official website
History
Opened	16 January 1889; 135 years ago (1889-01-16)
Services
Preceding station JR East Following station Tamado towards Oyama Mito Line Niihari towards Mito Preceding station Kantō Railway Following station Shimotsuma towards Toride Jōsō Line Rapid Terminus Ōtagō towards Toride Jōsō Line Local Preceding station Mooka Railway Following station Terminus SL Mooka Orimoto towards Motegi Mooka Line Shimodate-Nikōmae towards Motegi
Location Shimodate Station Location within Ibaraki Prefecture Show map of Ibaraki Prefecture Shimodate Station Shimodate Station (Japan) Show map of Japan

Kantō Railway platform

Lines

Shimodate Station is served by the JR East Mito Line, and is located 16.2 km (10.1 mi) from the official starting point of the line at Oyama Station. It is a terminus of the privately owned Mooka Railway’s Mooka Line and is also served by the Kantō Railway’s Jōsō Line.

Station layout

Shimodate Station has two island platforms and one side platform all connected by footbridges. The side platform has a cutout on its west side, so that the three platforms serve a total of six tracks. The station has a Midori no Madoguchi ticket office.

Platforms

1	■ Mooka Railway Mooka Line	for Mōka, Mashiko and Motegi
2, 3	■ JR East Mito Line	for Kasama, Tomobe and Mito for Yūki and Oyama

4, 5

■ Kantō Railway Jōsō Line

for Shimotsuma, Moriya and Toride

History

Shimodate Station was opened on 16 January 1889.^[1] The predecessor of the Mooka Railway began operations from 1 April 1912 and the Bōsō Railway (predecessor of the Kantō Railway) from 1 November 1913. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2019, the JR portion of station was used by an average of 3241 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).^[2] In Fiscal 2018, the Kanto Railway portion of the station was used by an average of 1253 passengers daily, and the Mooka Railway portion of the station by 662 passengers daily. ^[3]

Buses

• There is a bus route which runs from the station to Mount Tsukuba, the bus route name is 筑西市広域連携バス（Chikuseishi Koiki Renkei Bus）- Chikusei Municipal Conect Between Vicinities and Other Vicinities Bus

Surrounding area

• National Route 50
• Chikusei City Office
• Simodate Post Office

See also

• List of railway stations in Japan

References

1. "駅の情報 下館". JR東日本. Retrieved 29 January 2017.
2. 各駅の乗車人員 (2019年度) [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2019)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. 2020. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
3. 4.運輸・通信 (PDF). Chikusei City. 2019. p. 36. Retrieved 25 July 2020.

External links

Media related to Shimodate Station at Wikimedia Commons

• JR East Station Information (in Japanese)
• Mooka Railway Station Information (in Japanese)
• Kantō Railway Station Information (in Japanese)