Ashikajima Station

Ashikajima Station (海鹿島駅) is a railway station on the privately operated Chōshi Electric Railway Line in Chōshi, Chiba, Japan. The station is the easternmost station in the Kanto region, and a plaque erected in February 2012 stands on the station platform indicating this.

Lines
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.

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

History
Ashikajima Station first opened in December 1913 as a station on the Chōshi Sightseeing Railway (銚子遊覧鉄道), 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.

Ashikajima became an unstaffed station from 1 January 2008.

Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2010, the station was used by an average of 147 passengers daily (boarding passengers only). Passenger figures for previous years are as shown below.

Surrounding area

 * Ashikajima beach