Nakashima Station (Hiroshima)

Nakashima Station building (April 17, 2005)

Nakashima Station (中島駅, Nakashima-eki) is a JR West Kabe Line station located in 1-chōme, Kabe-Minami, Asaminami-ku, Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan.

History

• 1911-06-12: Nakashima Station opens
• 1936-09-01: The station is renamed Aki-Nakashima Station
• 1943-10-01: Station operations suspended
• 1956-10-01: Station reopens and is renamed Nakashima Station
• 1987-04-01: Japanese National Railways is privatized, and Nakashima Station becomes a JR West station

Station building

Nakashima Station features one station-side platform capable of handling one line. It has a small waiting room with two bench seats. There is a unisex pit toilet next to the waiting room. The platform is unmanned, but features an automated ticket machine. The ticket gate accepts ICOCA passes as well as traditional tickets. Tickets for Nakashima are discarded in a box hanging next to the automated ticket machine. Improvements to raise the height and pitch of the platform and make improvements to the wheelchair ramp leading to the platform were completed in November 2012. An area for parking bicycles and two-wheeled vehicles is located on the far side of the station.

Environs

• Hiroshima Municipal Kabe Minami Elementary School
• Hiroshima Bunkyo Women's University
• Nakashima Station Entrance Bus Station
• Kabe Driving School
• Kabe Public Employment Office
• Ōta River
• JR West Geibi Line Shimofukawa Station is located 1.5km southwest

Highway access

• Japan National Route 54
• Hiroshima Prefectural Route 70 (Hiroshima-Nakashima Route)
• Hiroshima Prefectural Route 177 (Shimosa Higashi Route)
• Hiroshima Prefectural Route 270 (Yagi-Midorii Route)

Connecting lines

Kabe Line

Kami-Yagi Station — Nakashima Station — Kabe Station

External links

• (Japanese) JR West