History
Shikaka Station opened on 5 December 1923 as an intermediate stop on the private Kitakyushu Railway's new line between Fukuyoshi and Hamasaki. When the Kitakyushu Railway was nationalised on 1 October 1937, Japanese Government Railways took over the station and designated the route as the Chikuhi Line. Control passed to JR Kyushu when Japanese National Railways was privatised on 1 April 1987. The original 1938 station building was demolished after construction of a replacement began in 2012. Today it is an unstaffed island-platform halt in Itoshima, Fukuoka, served only by Chikuhi Line local trains, 30.2 km from the line's origin at Meinohama.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Despite being inside the city of Itoshima, Shikaka sits on the western edge of the former Nijō-cho with just a handful of houses, a small fishing port and an inn — reached by climbing roughly 100 metres up a narrow slope from National Route 202.