Ashikajima Station

Ashikajima Station (海鹿島駅, Ashikajima-eki) is a railway station on the privately operated Chōshi Electric Railway Line in Chōshi, Chiba, Japan.

[2] The station is unstaffed,[2] and consists of a side platform serving a single track.

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 (3.7 mi) between Chōshi and Inuboh.

[2] It was so named (literally "sea lion island") because of the large numbers of sea lions seen on the coast up until the 1950s.

[6] Passenger figures for previous years are as shown below.