Ashikajima Station

Ashikajima Station
海鹿島駅
Ashikajima Station, January 2007
Location
Prefecture Chiba
(See other stations in Chiba)
City Chōshi
Neighborhood etc. 8505 Kobatake-shinmachi
Postal code288-0021
(in Japanese)千葉県銚子市小畑新町8505
History
Year opened 1913
Rail services
Operator(s) Chōshi Electric Railway
Line(s) Chōshi Electric Railway Line
Statistics 147 passengers/day (FY2010)

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 Chōshi Electric Railway Line from Chōshi to Tokawa. It is located between Nishi-Ashikajima and Kimigahama stations, and is a distance of 3.6 rail km from Chōshi Station.[2]

Station layout

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

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

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. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 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. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Shirato, Sadao (March 2014). 銚子遊覧鉄道 [Chōshi Sightseeing Railway]. The Railway Pictorial (in Japanese) (Japan: Denkisha Kenkyūkai) 64 (887): p.108-109.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 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. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 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. ↑ 6.0 6.1 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.

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