History
Shōnankaigankōen Station opened on 1 September 1904 as Nishikata Station on the Enoshima Electric Railway, in what is today the city of Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture. It was renamed to its present name — "Shōnan Coast Park Station" — on 1 December 1958. At an unknown later date the platform was relocated from the southern side of the line to its present northern position. Station numbering (EN05) was introduced in January 2014. The platform sits on a curve, making it the only Enoden stop equipped with a fall-detection mat connected to a special emergency-warning signal that can flag any platform fall to oncoming trains.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Because the platform stands on a curve, Shōnankaigankōen is the only stop on the Enoshima Electric Railway fitted with a fall-detection mat that triggers a special emergency-warning signal to oncoming trains.