History
The station opened on 12 November 1970 as Kita-Kashima Station, a freight-only facility on the Ministry of Railways' Kashima Line forming the boundary with Kashima Rinkai Railway's Kashima-Rinkō Line. It became unstaffed in November 1986 and passed to JR East at the 1987 JNR privatisation. On 12 March 1994, in anticipation of crowds for the new J.League side Kashima Antlers, a passenger platform funded by the town of Kashima opened and the station was renamed Kashima Soccer Stadium; trains stop only on match days at the adjacent Kashima Soccer Stadium. Suica use began on 14 March 2020.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Despite being a JR-administered station, it is open to passengers only on Kashima Antlers match days; on every other day it functions purely as a signal box and freight terminus.