Ashikajima Station

Ashikajima Station 海鹿島駅
The station entrance in October 2015
Location	8505 Kobatake-shinmachi, Chōshi-shi, Chiba-ken 288-0021 Japan
Operated by	Choshi Electric Railway
Line(s)	Choshi Electric Railway Line
Distance	3.6 km from Chōshi
Platforms	1 side platform
Tracks	1
Construction
Parking	No
Other information
Status	Unstaffed
History
Opened	December 1913
Traffic
Passengers	147 per day (FY2010)
Location
Ashikajima Station Location within Japan

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 eastern-most station in the Kanto region, and a plaque erected in February 2012 stands on the station platform indicating this.^[1]

Lines

Ashikajima Station is served by the 6.4 km 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 from Chōshi Station.^[2]

Station layout

The station is unstaffed,^[2] and consists of a side platform serving a single track.

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  View of the station from the platform side in October 2015

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  The plaque describing the station as the eastern-most station in the Kanto Region

Adjacent stations

«		Service	»
Chōshi Electric Railway Line
Nishi-Ashikajima		-	Kimigahama

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 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

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.

Fiscal year	Daily average
1930	88[5]
1950	442[5]
1978	411[5]
2007	151[7]
2008	154[8]
2009	161[9]
2010	147[6]

Surrounding area

• Ashikajima beach^[4]

See also

• List of railway stations in Japan

References

1. ココが「関東最東端の駅」　銚子電鉄・海鹿島駅に標柱 [Eastern-most station in Kanto: Choshi Electric Railway Ashikajima Station]. Chiba Nippo (in Japanese). Japan: Chiba Nippo Co., Ltd. 28 February 2012. Retrieved 28 August 2012.
2. Terada, Hirokazu (19 January 2013). データブック日本の私鉄 [Databook: Japan's Private Railways]. Japan: Neko Publishing. p. 208. ISBN 978-4-7770-1336-4.
3. Shirato, Sadao (March 2014). 銚子遊覧鉄道 [Chōshi Sightseeing Railway]. The Railway Pictorial (in Japanese) (Japan: Denkisha Kenkyūkai) 64 (887): 108–109.
4. メルヘン駅舎（各駅案内） [Fairy tale station buildings (Station information)] (in Japanese). Choshi Electric Railway. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
5. Shirato, Sadao (June 2011). 銚子電気鉄道（上） [Choshi Electric Railway Volume One]. Japan: Neko Publishing Co., Ltd. p. 31. ISBN 978-4-7770-5309-4.
6. 民鉄等駅別1日平均運輸状況 2010(平成22)年度 [Private railway average daily passenger figures by station (Fiscal 2010)] (Excel) (in Japanese). Japan: Chiba Prefectural Government. 2011. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
7. 民鉄等駅別1日平均運輸状況 2007(平成19)年度 [Private railway average daily passenger figures by station (Fiscal 2008)] (Excel) (in Japanese). Japan: Chiba Prefectural Government. 2011. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
8. 民鉄等駅別1日平均運輸状況 2008(平成20)年度 [Private railway average daily passenger figures by station (Fiscal 2008)] (Excel) (in Japanese). Japan: Chiba Prefectural Government. 2011. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
9. 民鉄等駅別1日平均運輸状況 2009(平成21)年度 [Private railway average daily passenger figures by station (Fiscal 2009)] (Excel) (in Japanese). Japan: Chiba Prefectural Government. 2011. Retrieved 2 June 2014.

External links

• Choshi Electric Railway station information (Japanese)

Coordinates: 35°43′18″N 140°51′49″E / 35.72167°N 140.86361°E