Shimoura

Known weekday departures: 57/day · Known Sat & holiday departures: 57/day

First / last known departure (weekday): 6:13 / 23:13

Busiest hour (known departures): 10:00–11:00 (4)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are the departures known from the timetable data, not a count of today's actual service.

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026 (retrieved in spring/summer 2026).

• Tokushima Line: Ushinoshima ⇄ Ishii (Tokushima)

Shimoura Station opened on 20 September 1934 as a stop for gasoline railcars only. It was temporarily suspended on 10 August 1941, then resumed operation on 1 November 1957 as an unstaffed station handling diesel-railcar passengers only. On 19 October 1969 a train collision and derailment accident occurred, killing one assistant engineer, and on 19 December of the same year another accident occurred when the express train 'Yoshinogawa 4' collided with a dump truck at the level crossing west of the station and derailed. It became a station on JR Shikoku's Tokushima Line at the 1 April 1987 division and privatization of Japanese National Railways. Its station number is B06.