Shimodate Station

Shimodate Station 下館駅
Shimodate Station, March 2012
General information
Location	Otsu 86, Chikusei, Ibaraki （茨城県茨城県筑西市乙86） Japan
Operated by	JR East Mooka Railway Kantō Railway
Line(s)	Mito Line Mooka Line Jōsō Line
History
Opened	1889
Passengers
FY2013	3393 (JR) daily

Kantō Railway platform

Shimodate Station (下館駅, Shimodate-eki) is a railway station located in Chikusei, Ibaraki Prefecture in Japan.

Lines

Shimodate Station is served by the JR East Mito Line, and is located 16.2 km from the official starting point of the line at Oyama Station. It is a terminus of the privately owned Mooka Railway’s Mooka Line and is served by the Kantō Railway’s Jōsō Line.

Station layout

Shimodate Station has two island platforms and one side platform all connected by overhead passageways. The side platform has a cutout on its west side, so that the three platforms serve a total of six tracks. The station has a Midori no Madoguchi ticket office.

Platforms

1	■ Mooka Railway Mooka Line	for Mōka, Mashiko and Motegi
2, 3	■ JR East Mito Line	for Kasama, Tomobe and Mito for Yūki and Oyama

4, 5

■ Kantō Railway Jōsō Line

for Shimotsuma, Moriya and Toride

Adjacent stations

«		Service	»
Mito Line
Tamado		-	Niihari
Mooka Line
Terminus		SL Mooka	Orimoto
Terminus		Local	Shimodate-Nikōmae
Jōsō Line
Shimotsuma		Rapid		Terminus
Ōtagō		Local		Terminus

History

Shimodate Station was opened on 16 January 1889. The predecessor of the Mooka Railway began operations from 1 April 1912 and the Bōsō Railway (predecessor of the Kantō Railway) from 1 November 1913. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987.

Surrounding area

• Japan National Route 50
• Chikusei City Office
• Simodate Post Office

External links

• JR East Station Information (in Japanese)
• Mooka Railway Station Information (in Japanese)
• Kantō Railway Station Information (in Japanese)