Shikotsugahara Station Hotel is a hotel and a railway station in Hokkaido Prefecture. It is a major location in the Magical Express Murder Case.
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Shikotsugahara Station Hotel is located somewhere in Hokkaido Prefecture. According to the limited express route, the train passes cities of Hakodate and Asahikawa to reach Shikotsugahara. Trains only stop at Shikotsugahara once every three days. The station is isolated because the station is surrounded by marsh and wetlands and the only road access to the nearest town was destroyed a month prior. It is the home of a large theatre located on a small island in the middle of a lake nearby the station/hotel. The station is the location of the Magic Troupe yearly magic show.
The station has a western style architecture with four platforms (two side platforms and two on one island platform. It is most likely operated by JR Hokkaido.
In the anime, the station hotel looks radically different then in the manga, the canopy doesn't cover the whole emplacement, the island platform are split into three island platforms and some small buildings (likely warehouses) are added.