Kashima Station (Fukushima)

Kashima Station 鹿島駅
File:JREast-Joban-line-Kashima-station-building-20140812.jpg Kashima Station in August 2014
Location	Kashima Maenouchi, Kashima-ku, Minamisōma, Fukushima （福島県南相馬市鹿島区鹿島字御前ノ内） Japan
Operated by	JR East
Line(s)	Joban Line
History
Opened	1898

Kashima Station (鹿島駅, Kashima-eki) is a railway station on the Joban Line in Minamisōma, Fukushima, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company.

Lines

Kashima Station is served by the Joban Line, and is located 294.4 km from the official starting point of the line at Nippori Station. However, due to damage to the line caused by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, trains from Kashima are able to travel as far as Sōma Station to the north and Haranomachi Station to the south. Full services are not expected to resume until after 2017.

Station layout

Kashima Station has two opposed side platforms connected to the station building by a footbridge.

Platforms

1	■ Joban Line	for Haranomachi
2	■ Joban Line	for Sōma

Adjacent stations

«		Service	»
Joban Line
Rapid: no stop
Haranomachi		Local		Nittaki

History

Kashima Station opened on 3 April 1898. With the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987, the station came under the operational control of JR East.

Surrounding area

• Former Kashima Town Hall
• Kashima Post Office

External links

• JR East Station Information (Japanese)