History
Shimotsuma Station opened on 1 November 1913 with the start of operations on the Jōsō Railroad, the private predecessor of today's Kantō Railway Jōsō Line. The operator became the Jōsō-Tsukuba Railway through a 1945 merger with the Tsukuba Railway, then reorganised as Kantō Railway on 1 June 1965 after another merger with the Kashima Sangū Railway. PASMO acceptance began on 14 March 2009. Operationally the station has three tracks across two platforms, with a level crossing inside the concourse on the Toride side and a separate footbridge linking the east and west sides.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Although Shimotsuma is the city's main station, the cluster of inns, bag shops and bicycle dealers at the so-called "Kuriyama" district just outside the station retains the look of a pre-war Jōsō Line shōtengai.