Station

Shishikui

宍喰

Shishikui
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Train service

No publicly available departure data for this station.

Location

History

Shishikui Station opened on 26 March 1992 as the sole intermediate stop on the three-station Asatō Line of the third-sector Asa Kaigan Railway, in the town of Kaiyō, Tokushima Prefecture. It is the railway's only staffed station and houses the company's head office, CTC control centre, and rolling-stock depot. The platform was rebuilt in the run-up to dual-mode-vehicle (DMV) operations: a second platform was added and the track layout reworked, with DMV service starting on 25 December 2021. Between 1 December 2020 and that opening date, trains were replaced by substitute buses to allow the conversion work. The station also marks Tokushima Prefecture's southernmost rail point.

Notes

In August 2010 the station appointed a medaka killifish as its "stationmaster," replaced four months later by two locally caught spiny lobsters; the male and female pair, named Tetchan and Asachan, took over the post on 7 December 2010.

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