Kashima Soccer Stadium Station

Kashima Soccer Stadium Station 鹿島サッカースタジアム駅
Entrance of the station
Location	Jinkoji 4980, Kashima, Ibaraki （茨城県鹿嶋市大字神向寺4980） Japan
Operated by	JR East Kashima Rinkai Railway
Line(s)	Kashima Line Kashima Rinkō Line Ōarai Kashima Line
History
Opened	1970
Previous names	Kita-Kashima (until 1994)

Kashima Soccer Stadium Station (鹿島サッカースタジアム駅, Kashima Sakkā Sutajiamu-eki^?) is a railway station in Kashima, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan.

The station operates for passengers only when there is a football match at the nearby Kashima Soccer Stadium.

The station has one island platform serving two tracks as well as separate tracks for freight trains.

The station opened on November 12, 1970, as a freight terminal named Kita-Kashima Station (北鹿島駅, Kita-Kashima eki^?). It formed the boundary between Japanese National Railways (Kashima Line) and Kashima Rinkai Railway (Kashima Rinkō Line).

Although the Kashima Rinkō Line provided passenger services between July 25, 1978, and December 1, 1983, and the Ōarai Kashima Line opened on March 14, 1985, for both freight and passenger traffic, Kita-Kashima Station was not used by passenger services. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987.

On March 12, 1994, the station was renamed to its present name and passenger services began on a limited basis (only on days when there is a game at Kashima Soccer Stadium).