Shimogōri Station (下郡駅, Shimogōri-eki) is a passenger railway station in the city of Kimitsu, Chiba Prefecture, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East).
Shimogōri Station
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Shimogōri Station
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| Location | Yamamoto Yumeishita 2, Kimitsu-shi, Chiba-ken 292-0401 Japan | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 35°21′19.34″N 140°3′19.57″E / 35.3553722°N 140.0554361°E / 35.3553722; 140.0554361 | ||||||||||
| Operated by |  JR East | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | ■ Kururi Line | ||||||||||
| Distance | 15.2 km from Kisarazu | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||
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| Status | Unstaffed | ||||||||||
| Website | Official website | ||||||||||
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| Opened | April 20, 1937 | ||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||
| FY2006 | 78 daily | ||||||||||
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Shimogōri Station is a station on the Kururi Line, and is located 15.2 km from the terminus of the line at Kisarazu Station.
The station consists of a single side platform serving bidirectional traffic. The platform is short, and can only handle trains with a length of three carriages or less. The station is unattended.
| 1 | ■ Kururi Line | For Kisarazu Kazusa-Kameyama |
Shimogōri Station was opened on April 20, 1937. It was closed in 1944 due to World War II, but reopened in January 1947, but as utilization was very low, it closed again until April 1, 1956. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the JNR on April 1, 1987.
In fiscal 2006, the station was used by an average of 78 passengers daily.[1]
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