Shimoda Station

For other uses, see Shimoda Station (disambiguation).

Shimoda 下田
File:JRE ShimodaStation-Home.jpg Shimoda Station
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
History
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.

History

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.

Lines

• Aoimori Railway Company
  • Aoimori Railway Line

Station layout

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.

Platforms

1	■Aoimori Railway Line	For Hachinohe
2	■Aoimori Railway Line	(siding)
3	■Aoimori Railway Line	For Aomori

Bus services

• Towada Kanko Bus
  • For Towada via Rokunohe
  • For Hachinohe via Tagadai-Danchi

Adjacent stations

«		Service		»
Aoimori Railway Line
Mutsu-Ichikawa		-	Mukaiyama

See also

• List of Railway Stations in Japan

References

• JTB Timetable December 2010 issue

External links

• Aoimori Railway station information page (Japanese)