Shimogōri Station

Shimogōri Station
下郡駅
Shimogōri Station
Location
Prefecture Chiba
(See other stations in Chiba)
City Kimitsu
Neighborhood etc. Yamamoto Yumeishita 2
Postal code292 - 0401
(in Japanese)千葉県君津市山本湯名下2
History
Year opened 1937
Rail services
Operator(s) JR East
Line(s) Kururi Line
Statistics 78 passengers/day (2006)

Shimogōri Station (下郡駅 Shimogōri-eki) is a railway station operated by JR East's Kururi Line located in Kimitsu, Chiba Prefecture Japan. It is 15.2 kilometers from the western terminus of the Kururi Line at Kisarazu Station.

History

Shimogōri Station was opened on April 20, 1937. It was closed in 1944 due to World War II, but reopened in January 1947, but as utilization was very low, it closed again until April 1, 1956. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the JNR on April 1, 1987.

Lines

Station layout

Shimogōri Station has a single side platform serving bidirectional traffic. The platform is short, and can only handle trains with a length of three carriages or less. The station is unattended.

Platform

1 Kururi Line For Kisarazu
Kazusa-Kameyama

Adjacent stations

« Service »
Kururi Line
Makuta - Obitsu

External links

Coordinates: 35°21′19.34″N 140°3′19.57″E / 35.3553722°N 140.0554361°E