Shimoda
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Shimoda Station
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Location | Sakaida, Oirase, Kamikita, Aomori (青森県上北郡おいらせ町境田) Japan |
Operated by | Aoimori Railway |
Line(s) | Aoimori Railway Line |
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Opened | 1891 |
Shimoda Station (下田駅 Shimoda eki?) is a railway station on the Aoimori Railway Line located in the town of Oirase, Aomori Prefecture, Japan. It is 84.9 rail kilometers from the terminus of the Aoimori Railway Line at Aomori Station.
Shimoda Station was opened on December 20, 1891 as a station on the Nippon Railway. It became a station on the Tōhoku Main Line of the Japanese Government Railways (JGR), the pre-war predecssor to the Japan National Railway (JNR) after the nationalization of the Nippon Railway on November 1, 1906. Regularly scheduled freight services were discontinued in October 1971, and it has been managed from Misawa Station since February 1983. With the privatization of the JNR on April 1, 1987, it came under the operational control of JR East.
The section of the Tōhoku Main Line including this station was transferred to Aoimori Railway on December 4, 2010.
Shimoda Station has an island platform and a side platform serving three tracks, connected the station building by an overpass. However, only tracks 1 and 3 are in use, and track 2 is used as a siding.
Coordinates: 40°35′30.99″N 141°24′27.79″E / 40.5919417°N 141.4077194°E