History
Chōjagahamashiosaihamanasukōenmae Station opened on 18 November 1990 as an in-fill stop on the Kashima Rinkai Railway Ōarai Kashima Line, in what is today the city of Kashima, Ibaraki Prefecture. The station was added after the completion of Chōjagahama Shiosai Hamanasu Park by the former village of Ōno, partly to give Ibaraki primary schoolchildren a destination for field trips, with roughly fifty-seven million yen of the village's Furusato-sōsei subsidy used to build the station house. It is 48.4 kilometres from the line's start at Mito and consists of a single elevated side platform without a station building.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
When it opened in 1990 the station had the longest name on any Japanese railway at 22 hiragana characters; it was tied by Minami-Aso's Mizu no Umareru Sato Hakusui-Kōgen Station in 1992, briefly regained sole possession of the record from 2007 to 2015, and remains the longest station name in eastern Japan.