Opened 1909 | ||
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Location Nishi-Kashima, Tenryū, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka
（静岡県 浜松市天竜区二俣町南鹿島）
Japan Operated by Tenryū Hamanako Railroad
Enshū Railway Line(s) Tenryū Hamanako Line
Enshū Railway Line Address 67-1 Futamatacho Minamikajima, Tenryu Ward, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture 431-3312, Japan Similar Shin‑Hamamatsu Station, Tenryū‑Futamata Station, Futamata‑Hommachi Station, Enshū‑Nishigasaki Station, Enshū‑Gansuiji Station | ||
Nishi-Kajima Station (西鹿島駅, Nishi-Kajima-eki) is a train station on the Tenryū Hamanako Railroad Tenryū Hamanako Line and the Enshū Railway Line in Tenryū-ku, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.
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Lines
Nishi-Kajima Station is served by the following two lines.
It is located 28.5 rail kilometers from the terminus of the Tenryū Hamanako Line at Kakegawa Station and 17.8 rail kilometers from the terminus of the Enshū Railway Line at Shin-Hamamatsu Station.
Layout
Nishi-Kashima Station has two opposed side platforms for the Enshū Railway Line and a single side platform for the Tenryū Hamanako Line. All platforms are connected by an underpass. The Tenryū Hamanako Line originally had two platforms, one of which was used primarily for freight services. This platform was destroyed when the Enshū Line repair works were relocated to Nishi-Kashima Station from Enshū-Nishigasaki Station on December 23, 1977.
Station history
Nishi-Kashima Station opened on December 6, 1909 as the Kashima Station (鹿島駅) on the Nippon-kido (大日本軌道) Kashima Line. In 1943, as part of the wartime nationalization and consolidation of private railways, this line became part of the Enshū Railway Line. On April 1, 1923, the station was renamed Enshū-Futamata Station (遠州二俣駅), and (after coming under control of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) organization on March 1, 1938, was moved approximately 400 meters to the south, and given its present name.
On June 1, 1940, JNR's Futamata Line was extended from Enshū-Mori Station to Kanasashi Station, with an intermediate stop at Nishi-Kashima Station. Scheduled freight services were discontinued from June 1970.