History
Kashima Station opened on 3 April 1898 as a stop on the private Nippon Railway, which was nationalised on 1 November 1906; the route became the Jōban Line on 12 October 1909. Goods handling was withdrawn on 2 October 1972, parcels were dropped in March 1985 with a simultaneous switch to simple-commission staffing, and the station became part of JR East at the 1 April 1987 privatisation. Staffing was restored in 1990 and Suica started on 14 March 2009. The station closed after the 11 March 2011 earthquake, with services replaced by buses; rail returned on 21 December 2011 over the Haranomachi–Sōma section, and the station was made unstaffed again in July 2016 when staff were transferred to Odaka following the resumption of through service there.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Kashima was restaffed in 1990 after several years of simple-commission operation, only to be unstaffed again in July 2016 when staff were moved to Odaka for the post-earthquake reopening there.