Ashikajima Station

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 海鹿島駅
The station entrance in October 2015
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 side platform
Tracks	1
Construction
Parking	No
Other information
Status	Unstaffed
History
Opened	December 1913
Passengers
FY2010	147 daily
Location
Ashikajima Station Location within Chiba Prefecture Ashikajima Station Ashikajima Station (Japan)

Lines

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.

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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 easternmost 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 (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

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 [Easternmost 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. Archived from the original on 10 May 2013. 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 (in Japanese)