Ashikajima Station
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 Chōshi Electric Railway Line from to . It is located between and stations, and is a distance of 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 , which operated a distance of between and . 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 See also List of