Shimonada Station: a local train station famous as movie location

[Introduction]

I traveled to Ehime and Kagawa Prefecture for 4 days and 3 nights. In this article, I will write about Shimonada Station, which is famous as movie location. I had a long-held desire to visit there and indeed I enjoyed it very much.

[Visit Places (series of articles)]
* Ozu City part 1: Old town (Related article)
* Ozu City part 2: Garyu Sanso and Ozu Castle (Related article)
* Shimonada: Shimonada station (This article)
* Imabari City: Imabari Castle etc. (Related article)
* Shimanami Kaido: Kurushima Kaikyo Bridge (Related article)
* Shodoshima Island part 1: Nijushi no Hitomi Movie Village (Related article)
* Shodoshima Island part 2: Shodoshima Olive Park (Related article)
* Shodoshima Island part 3: Angel Road (Related article)
* Shodoshima Island part 4: Meiro no machi (Maze Town) etc. (Related article)
* Matsuyama City: Tram, Botchan train and Mikyan (Related article)

[Travel Dates]
2015.07.25 – 28

[Main Part]

After leaving Ozu City where I wrote in the previous article, I took a local train of the Yosan Line and stopped over at Shimonada Station to take photos there.

What is Shimonada Station?

Shimonada Station is a a train station on the Yosan Line in Iyo, Ehime Prefecture. The average number of a daily ridership is just around 60 people, so it’s a small local train station.

You can see the Inland Sea from the platform of the station and it used to be called “the nearest station to the sea”. Due to its magnificent view, Shimonada Station is often used for movie and TV location. In particular, this station is famous as a filming location for posters of “Seishun 18 kippu (ticket)”, a discount rail ticket offered by Japan’s JR network.

For this reason, Shimonada Station is well known among railroad fans and photographers and I had been keen to take photos there. This time, my desire came true. As it is often said that the sunset view is the best timing to shoot photos, I arrived at the venue in the late afternoon and took photos until the sun went down.

Photos I took at Shimonada Station

Just after I reached the place during daylight hours.

The sun started to go down little by little.

Various types of colors by changing camera setting.

I happened to see a sightseeing train stop at the station.

Just before the sunset. As the horizon was seen in front of the platform, I was able to watch the sun setting on a skyline.

Just after the sunset. To emphasize a senset atmoshphere, the color was adjusted to umber.

Then, I tool a train and moved to Matsuyama City where I stayed on the day.

[Closing]

So, that’s it for the article about Shimonada Station. Visiting Shimonada Station is one of the main purposes in this trip, and I was very satisfied as I was able to take wonderful photos more than I expected 🙂