Train service
No publicly available departure data for this station.
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 infill stop in a residential pocket of Chikusei. The station name is taken from Ibaraki Prefectural Shimodate Second Senior High School, immediately east of the platform; on-train announcements and some fare tables refer to it simply as "Nikōmae."
Notes
No station-name signboards or route guidance are visible from the road behind the platform, so from outside the surrounding houses the stop's name and even its identity as a railway station are hard to make out.
Sources
Last updated: 2026-05-18