- Shimo-Gion Station
nihongo|Shimo-Gion Station|下祗園駅 or 下祇園駅|Shimo-Gion Eki is a JR West
Kabe Line station located in 4-chōme, Nagatsuka, Asaminami-ku, Hiroshima,Hiroshima Prefecture ,Japan . The station name on the building uses an olderkanji for the "gi" (), but in most current publications it is listed as shown above (祗 or 祇).History
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1909-11-19 : Shimo-Gion Station opens
*1987-04-01 :Japanese National Railways is privatized, and Shimo-Gion Station becomes a JR West stationtation building
Shimo-Gion Station features one island-style platform capable of handling two lines simultaneously.
Environs
*Hiroshima Asaminami Post Office
*Hiroshima Naka-Gion Post Office
*Kobelco Construction Machinery (formerly Yutani Heavy Industries)
*Yume Town Gion
*Hiroshima Municipal Gion Elementary School
*Hiroshima Municipal Hara Elementary School
*Hiroshima Municipal Yamamoto Elementary School
*Hiroshima Municipal Gion Junior High School
*AICJ Junior High School
*AICJ High School
*Ōshimo Gakuen Gion High School
*Hiroshima University of Economics , including Hiroshima Economics Library
*Hesaka Station , on the JR WestGeibi Line Highway access
*Japan National Route 54
* Hiroshima Prefectural Route 277 (Furuichi-Hiroshima Route)Connecting lines
;Kabe Line:Commuter Liner::
Aki-Nagatsuka Station — Shimo-Gion Station —Ōmachi Station :Local::Aki-Nagatsuka Station — Shimo-Gion Station —Furuichibashi Station External links
*ja icon [http://www.jr-odekake.net/eki/top.php?id=0801703 JR West]
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