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Location | Oshino, Ōita-shi, Ōita-ken, 870-1121 Japan | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 33°11′17″N 131°36′54″E / 33.18806°N 131.61500°E | ||||||||||
Operated by | JR Kyushu | ||||||||||
Line(s) | ■ Hōhi Main Line | ||||||||||
Distance | 140.2 km from Kumamoto | ||||||||||
Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||
Tracks | 1 | ||||||||||
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Structure type | At grade | ||||||||||
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Status | Staffed ticket window (outsourced) | ||||||||||
Website | Official website | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
Opened | 22 February 1987 | ||||||||||
Passengers | |||||||||||
FY2016 | 1,166 daily | ||||||||||
Rank | 146th (among JR Kyushu stations) | ||||||||||
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Shikido Station (敷戸駅, Shikido-eki) is a passenger railway station located in Ōita City, Ōita Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by JR Kyushu.[1][2]
The station is served by the Hōhi Main Line and is located 140.2 km from the starting point of the line at Kumamoto.[3]
The station consists of a side platform serving a single track. There is no station building, but a shelter is provided on the platform together with a staffed ticket booth, an automatic ticket vending machine, a SUGOCA card charging station and a SUGOCA card reader.[2][3]
Management of the station has been outsourced to the JR Kyushu Tetsudou Eigyou Co., a wholly owned subsidiary of JR Kyushu specialising in station services. It staffs the ticket booth which is equipped with a POS machine but does not have a Midori no Madoguchi facility.[4][5]
Japanese National Railways (JNR) opened the station on 22 February 1987 as an additional station on the existing track of the Hōhi Main Line. With the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR Kyushu.[6]
In February 2018, JR Kyushu announced that the station would become unstaffed in the autumn of 2018 after completing barrier-free improvements and introducing the "Smart Support" remote station management scheme.[7]
In fiscal 2016, the station was used by an average of 1,166 passengers daily (boarding passengers only), and it ranked 146th among the busiest stations of JR Kyushu.[8]
The American YouTuber based in Japan, Kevin O'Donnell, referenced Shikido Station in his skit "Trains in Tokyo vs. Trains everywhere else" as a 無人駅 or staff-less station. [9]