Shimodate

Weekday departures: 55/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 55/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:15 / 22:41

Busiest hour in the available data: 7:00–8:00 (5)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.

Timetable data as of 5 May 2026.

The timetable data is incomplete for some or all lines at this station, so the weekday and Sat & holiday figures are departures in the available timetable data, not totals.

Lines where the timetable data is complete: JR Mito Line

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• Kanto Railway Joso Line: no timetable data
• Mooka Railway Mooka Line: no timetable data

• JR Mito Line: Niihari ⇄ Tamado

Shimodate Station opened on 16 January 1889 with the Mito Railway's Oyama–Mito line, and is today shared by JR East (Mito Line), JR Freight, the third-sector Mooka Railway and the private Kantō Railway, making it the principal station of Chikusei, Ibaraki. The Mōka Light Railway (predecessor of the Mooka Railway) reached the station on 1 April 1912, and the Jōsō Railway (predecessor of the Kantō Railway) joined on 1 November 1913. The Mōka Line was transferred from JNR successor JR East to the third-sector Mooka Railway on 11 April 1988. The station has three platforms serving six tracks, including a notched cutout for Mooka services. Freight is now limited to occasional special workings.

Despite "Shimodate" being the station's name, there is no place officially called Shimodate today: when the town of Shimodate was formed in 1889 the name was not used for any of its ōaza addresses, and nothing has changed since — the area is still popularly called Shimodate even after the merger that created the city of Chikusei.