Station

Shimodate-Nikomae

下館二高前

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Shimodate-Nikomae
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Timetable information

Departure data for this station is not available on this site.

Location

History

Shimodate-Nikōmae Station opened on 11 April 1988, the day JR East transferred the Mōka Line to the third-sector Mōka Railway. It sits 2.2 rail kilometres from the Shimodate terminus, with a single side platform serving traffic in both directions. The station is unstaffed and has neither a forecourt nor public toilets, reflecting its origins as a new stop built in a residential pocket of Chikusei. The station name is taken from Ibaraki Prefectural Shimodate Second Senior High School, about a three-minute walk east; on-train announcements and some fare tables refer to it simply as "Nikōmae."

Notes

There are no signs in the neighbourhood pointing to the station, nothing at the platform entrance identifies the line or the stop, and the platform's name board cannot be seen from the road running alongside — so from the outside it is hard even to confirm what the station is called.

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