Kashima Soccer Stadium Station
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History, melodies, surroundingsThe station opened as Kita-Kashima Station on the Kashima Rinko Line of the Kashima Rinkai Railway, with operations commencing between this station and Okinoyahama Station, handling freight only.
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鹿島臨海鉄道鹿島臨港線の北鹿島駅（きたかしまえき）として開設。当駅から奥野谷浜駅まで開業。貨物のみ取扱い。
The Japanese National Railways Kashima Line freight line between Kashima-Jingu and this station opened.
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日本国有鉄道鹿島線鹿島神宮 - 当駅間（貨物線）が開業。
A passenger train service was introduced on the Kashima Rinkō Line of the Kashima Rinkai Railway, and although the station was treated as a pass-through, it nominally started handling passengers, with a switchback to access Kashima-Jingū Station.
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鹿島臨海鉄道鹿島臨港線に旅客列車設定。当駅は通過扱いだが、名目上旅客扱い開始。当駅でスイッチバックして鹿島神宮駅まで乗り入れる。
The passenger train service on the Kashima Rinkō Line of Kashima Rinkai Railway was abolished and passenger operations were discontinued.
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鹿島臨海鉄道鹿島臨港線の旅客列車廃止。旅客扱い廃止。
The Kashima Rinkai Railway Ōarai Kashima Line opened between Mito and the current station, a distance of 53.0 km, nominally reopening passenger services.
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鹿島臨海鉄道大洗鹿島線水戸 - 当駅間53.0km開業。名目上旅客扱い再開。
It became an unmanned station.
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駅員無配置駅となる。
With the privatization of Japanese National Railways, it became a station of East Japan Railway Company (JR East).
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国鉄分割民営化に伴い、東日本旅客鉄道（JR東日本）の駅となる。
The Sumitomo Metal soccer team, which would make the Ibaraki Prefectural Soccer Stadium under construction near the station its home stadium, was decided to participate in the professional soccer league from the 1993 fiscal year, later becoming Kashima Antlers.
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同駅近郊に建設される茨城県立サッカースタジアムを本拠地にした住友金属のサッカーチーム（後の鹿島アントラーズ）がプロサッカーリーグに1993年度から参加することが決まる。
Construction on new passenger facilities at the station commenced, coinciding with the day Japan's J.League held its first match.
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同駅での旅客設備新設工事が着工。なおこの日は日本のJリーグが初めて試合を行った日である（アントラーズは翌日）。
The first official J.League match was held at Kashima Stadium, with spectator transportation for the rest of the year handled by bus from Kashima-Jingu Station and Kashima-Ono Station.
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カシマスタジアムで最初のJリーグ公式戦を開催。同年内の観客輸送は鹿島神宮駅と鹿島大野駅からのバス輸送で対応。
The parties reached an agreement to start passenger operations from 1994.
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各者間の協議がまとまり、1994年からの旅客営業開始で合意。
The station was renamed Kashima Soccer Stadium Station and began operating as a temporary station on match days.
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鹿島サッカースタジアム駅に改称。試合開催日のみ臨時駅として旅客営業開始。
The mayor of Kashima Town at that time submitted a request to JR East Chiba Branch regarding the development of a transportation system accompanying the construction of the prefectural soccer stadium.
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当時の鹿島町長からJR東日本千葉支社に「県立サッカースタジアム建設に伴う交通体系の整備に関する要望」が提出。
The mayor of Kashima Town at that time submitted a request to Kashima Rinkai Railway regarding the development of a transportation system accompanying the construction of the prefectural soccer stadium.
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当時の鹿島町長から鹿島臨海鉄道に「県立サッカースタジアム建設に伴う交通体系の整備に関する要望」が提出。
The first meeting of related parties was held by JR East Chiba Branch, JR Freight Kanto Branch, Kashima Rinkai Railway, Ibaraki Prefecture, and Kashima Town.
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JR東日本千葉支社・JR貨物関東支社・鹿島臨海鉄道・茨城県・鹿島町による第1回関係者会議が開催。
Initially, a JR temporary train was to operate directly between Tokyo Station and the station, but it was cancelled due to concerns about the potential for accidents caused by a concentration of spectators at the small station, following the previous year's Akashi pedestrian overpass accident, and passengers instead transferred at Kashima-Jingu Station.
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当初はJRの臨時列車が東京駅と同駅の間を直通運転する予定だったが、前年の明石花火大会歩道橋事故を受け、設備が小規模な同駅に観客が集中することでの事故発生を防止するという理由で中止され、鹿島神宮駅での乗換となる。
The 2002 FIFA World Cup was held at Kashima Soccer Stadium, with temporary trains operating between Kashima Stadium Station and Kashima-Jingu Station or Mito Station.
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カシマサッカースタジアムで2002 FIFAワールドカップを開催。臨時列車が鹿島神宮駅や水戸駅と同駅との間で運転。
To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the opening of the Oarai Kashima Line, with special permission from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, passenger operations were conducted three round trips from this station to Kamisu Station on the Kashima Rinko Line, which normally does not carry passengers, using a 2-car formation of the Kashima Rinkai Railway 6000 series diesel multiple unit.
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大洗鹿島線開業20周年を記念し、国土交通省の特別な許可を得た上で、通常は旅客輸送を行わない鹿島臨港線で、当駅から神栖駅まで鹿島臨海鉄道の6000形気動車2両編成を使用し旅客営業が3往復行われる。
The 2006 JOMO All-Star Soccer game was held at Kashima Soccer Stadium, with a Japanese National Railways East temporary train making its first entry.
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2006JOMOオールスターサッカーがカシマサッカースタジアムで開催。その際、JR東日本の臨時列車が初めて乗り入れた。
It was incorporated into the Tokyo suburban area.
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東京近郊区間に組み込まれる。
The IC card "Suica" becomes available for use, but only on Japanese National Railways lines.
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ICカード「Suica」の利用が可能となる（JR線のみ）。
Timeline adapted from Japanese Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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