Shimoda Station

Railway station in Oirase, Aomori Prefecture, Japan

Preceding station	Aoimori Railway			Following station
Hachinohe Terminus		Shimokita		Misawa towards Noheji
Mutsu-Ichikawa towards Metoki		Aoimori Railway Line		Mukaiyama towards Aomori

Location
Shimoda Station Location within Aomori Prefecture Show map of Aomori Prefecture Shimoda Station Shimoda Station (Japan) Show map of Japan

Shimoda Station (下田駅, Shimoda eki) is a railway station on the Aoimori Railway Line in the town of Oirase in Aomori Prefecture, Japan, operated by the third sector railway operator Aoimori Railway Company.

Lines

Shimoda Station is served by the Aoimori Railway Line, and is 37.0 kilometers from the terminus of the line at Metoki Station. It is 654.3 kilometers from Tokyo Station.

Station layout

Shimoda Station has a one ground-level island platform and one ground-level side platform serving three tracks connected to the station building by a footbridge. However, only tracks 1 and 3 are in use, and track 2 is used as a siding. The station is staffed.

Platforms

1	■ Aoimori Railway Line	for Sannohe and Hachinohe
2	■ Aoimori Railway Line	(siding)
3	■ Aoimori Railway Line	for Misawa, Noheji and Aomori

Bus services

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

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 predecessor 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.