Nishi-Kajima Station

Nishi-Kajima Station
西鹿島駅
Nishi-Kajima Station
Location
Prefecture Shizuoka
(See other stations in Shizuoka)
City Hamamatsu
Ward Tenryū
Neighborhood etc. Nishi-Kashima
Postal code431-3312
(in Japanese)静岡県 浜松市天竜区二俣町南鹿島
History
Year opened 1909
Rail services
Operator(s) Tenryū Hamanako Railroad
Enshū Railway
Line(s) Tenryū Hamanako Line
Enshū Railway Line

Nishi-Kajima Station (西鹿島駅 Nishi-Kajima-eki) is a train station on the Tenryū Hamanako Railroad Tenryū Hamanako Line and the Enshū Railway Line in Tenryū-ku, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.

Lines

Nishi-Kajima Station is served by the following two lines.

It is located 28.5 rail kilometers from the terminus of the Tenryū Hamanako Line at Kakegawa Station and 17.8 rail kilometers from the terminus of the Enshū Railway Line at Shin-Hamamatsu Station.

Layout

Nishi-Kashima Station has two opposed side platforms for the Enshū Railway Line and a single side platform for the Tenryū Hamanako Line. All platforms are connected by an underpass. The Tenryū Hamanako Line originally had two platforms, one of which was used primarily for freight services. This platform was destroyed when the Enshū Line repair works were relocated to Nishi-Kashima Station from Enshū-Nishigasaki Station on December 23, 1977.

Adjacent stations

« Service »
Tenryū Hamanako Line
Futamata-Hommachi - Gansuiji
Enshū Railway Line
Enshū-Gansuiji - Terminus

Station history

Nishi-Kashima Station opened on December 6, 1909 as the Kashima Station (鹿島駅) on the Nippon-kido (大日本軌道) Kashima Line. In 1943, as part of the wartime nationalization and consolidation of private railways, this line became part of the Enshū Railway Line. On April 1, 1923, the station was renamed Enshū-Futamata Station (遠州二俣駅), and (after coming under control of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) organization on March 1, 1938, was moved approximately 400 meters to the south, and given its present name.

On June 1, 1940, JNR's Futamata Line was extended from Enshū-Mori Station to Kanasashi Station, with an intermediate stop at Nishi-Kashima Station. Scheduled freight services were discontinued from June 1970.

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Coordinates: 34°50′48″N 137°48′30″E / 34.846741°N 137.808241°E