Hyūga-Sumiyoshi Station

Hyūga-Sumiyoshi Station (日向住吉駅, Hyūga-Sumiyoshi-eki) is a railway station in Miyazaki City, Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by of JR Kyushu and is on the Nippō Main Line.[1][2]

Hyūga-Sumiyoshi Station

日向住吉駅
Hyūga-Sumiyoshi Station in 2006
LocationJapan
Coordinates31°59′26″N 131°27′26″E
Operated by JR Kyushu
Line(s)■ Nippō Main Line
Distance330.9 km from Kokura
Platforms1 island platform
Tracks2 + 1 siding
Construction
Structure typeAt grade
Bicycle facilitiesDesignated parking area for bicycles
Disabled accessNo - footbridge to platform
Other information
StatusStaffed ticket window (outsourced)
WebsiteOfficial website
History
Opened15 December 1913 (1913-12-15)
Previous namesJirogabyū (until 1 October 1935)
Passengers
FY2016858 daily
Rank183rd (among JR Kyushu stations)
Location
Hyūga-Sumiyoshi Station
Location within Japan

Lines

The station is served by the Nippō Main Line and is located 330.9 km from the starting point of the line at Kokura.[3]

Layout

The station consists of an island platform serving two tracks at grade with a siding. The station building is a wooden structure in western style with a stained glass gable. It houses a staffed ticket window and a waiting area. Access to the island platform is by means of a footbridge.[2][3]

Management of the passenger facilities at the station has been outsourced to the JR Kyushu Tetsudou Eigyou Co., a wholly owned subsidiary of JR Kyushu specialising in station services. It staffs the ticket booth which is equipped with a POS machine but does not have a Midori no Madoguchi facility.[4][5]

Adjacent stations
« Service »
Nippō Main Line
Sadowara Local Hasugaike

History

On 15 December 1913, the Miyazaki Prefectural Railway (宮崎県営鉄道) opened a line from Miyazaki northwards to Hirose (now closed). This station, then named Jirogabyū (次郎ヶ別府) was opened on the same day as an intermediate station on the track. The Miyazaki Prefectural Railway was nationalized on 21 September 1917 and Japanese Government Railways (JGR) assumed control of the station, designating it as part of the Tsuma Light Rail Line (妻軽便線). By 1920, JGR had extended the track from Hirose northwards to Takanabe. Thus on 11 September 1920, JGR designated the stretch of track from Takanabe, through this station to Miyazaki as part of the Miyazaki Main Line, which at that time already comprised the track from Miyazaki southwards to Miyakonojō. Expanding north of Takanabe in phases, the track eventually reached Kokura and the entire stretch from Kokura to Miyakonojō was redesignated as the Nippō Main Line on 15 December 1923. Jirogabyū was renamed Hyūga-Sumiyoshi on 1 October 1935. With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR), the successor of JGR, on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR Kyushu.[6][7][8]

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2016, the station was used by an average of 858 passengers daily (boarding passengers only), and it ranked 183rd among the busiest stations of JR Kyushu.[9]

See also

References
  1. "JR Kyushu Route Map" (PDF). JR Kyushu. Retrieved 23 February 2018.
  2. "日向住吉" [Hyūga-Sumiyoshi]. hacchi-no-he.net. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
  3. Kawashima, Ryōzō (2013). 図説: 日本の鉄道 四国・九州ライン 全線・全駅・全配線・第6巻 熊本 大分 エリア [Japan Railways Illustrated. Shikoku and Kyushu. All lines, all stations, all track layouts. Volume 6 Kumamoto Ōita Area] (in Japanese). Kodansha. pp. 54, 86. ISBN 9784062951654.
  4. "鹿児島支店内各駅" [Stations within the Kagoshima Branch]. JRTE website. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
  5. "日向住吉駅" [Hyūga-Sumiyoshi Station]. jr-mars.dyndns.org. Retrieved 18 May 2018. See images of tickets sold.
  6. Ishino, Tetsu; et al., eds. (1998). 停車場変遷大事典 国鉄・JR編 [Station Transition Directory - JNR/JR] (in Japanese). I. Tokyo: JTB Corporation. pp. 228–9. ISBN 4533029809.
  7. Ishino, Tetsu; et al., eds. (1998). 停車場変遷大事典 国鉄・JR編 [Station Transition Directory - JNR/JR] (in Japanese). II. Tokyo: JTB Corporation. p. 759. ISBN 4533029809.
  8. Imao, Keisuke (2009). 日本鉄道旅行地図帳 12号 九州 沖縄―全線・全駅・全廃線 [Japan Rail Travel Atlas No. 12 Kyushu Okinawa - all lines, all stations and disused lines] (in Japanese). Mook. pp. 62–3. ISBN 9784107900302.
  9. "駅別乗車人員上位300駅（平成28年度）" [Passengers embarking by station - Top 300 stations (Fiscal 2016)] (PDF). JR Kyushu. 31 July 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 August 2017. Retrieved 3 March 2018.


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