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 (1913-12)
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.

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.

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

View of the station from the platform side in October 2015

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

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. The railway closed in November 1917, but was reopened on 5 July 1923 as the Chōshi Railway. It was so named (literally "sea lion island") because of the large numbers of sea lions seen on the coast up until the 1950s. The present-day station structure was built in 1951.