Kitsuki Station

Kitsuki Station (杵築駅, Kitsuki-eki) is a railway station on the Nippō Main Line operated by Kyūshū Railway Company in Kitsuki, Ōita, Japan.[1][2]

Kitsuki Station

杵築駅
Kitsuki Station in February 2009
LocationKitsuki, Ōita
Japan
Coordinates 33°24′40″N 131°34′32″E
Operated by JR Kyushu
Line(s)■ Nippō Main Line
Distance99.2 km from Kokura
Platforms1 side + 1 island platforms
Tracks3 + 2 sidings
Construction
Structure typeAt grade
Disabled accessNo - platforms linked by footbridge
Other information
StatusStaffed ticket window (Midori no Madoguchi) (outsourced)
WebsiteOfficial website
History
Opened22 March 1911 (1911-03-22)
Passengers
FY2016758 daily
Rank195th (among JR Kyushu stations)
Location
Kitsuki Station
Location within Japan

Lines

The station is served by the Nippō Main Line and is located 99.2 km from the starting point of the line at Kokura.[3]

Layout

The station consists of a side and an island platform serving three tracks. The station building is a timber structure of traditional Japanese design, built to resemble a Japanese castle. It houses a staffed ticket window, a waiting area and a tourist information centre. Access to the island platform is by means of a footbridge.[2][3][4]

Management of 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 Midori no Madoguchi facility.[5][6]

Adjacent stations
« Service »
Nippō Main Line
Naka-Yamaga Local Ōga

History

The private Kyushu Railway had, by 1909, through acquisition and its own expansion, established a track from Kokura to Yanagigaura. The Kyushu Railway was nationalised on 1 July 1907. Japanese Government Railways (JGR), designated the track as the Hōshū Main Line on 12 October 1909 and expanded it southwards in phases, with Hiji opening as the new southern terminus on 22 March 1911. On the same day, Kitsuki was opened as an intermediate station on the new track. On 15 December 1923, the Hōshū Main Line was renamed the Nippō Main Line. 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.[7][8]

In 2015, the local town tourism association opened a tourist information centre at the station, replacing a kiosk which had closed the previous year.[9]

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2016, the station was used by an average of 758 passengers daily (boarding passengers only), and it ranked 195th among the busiest stations of JR Kyushu.[10]

See also

References
  1. "JR Kyushu Route Map" (PDF). JR Kyushu. Retrieved 23 February 2018.
  2. "杵築" [Kitsuki]. hacchi-no-he.net. Retrieved 29 April 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4巻 福岡エリア [Japan Railways Illustrated. Shikoku and Kyushu. All lines, all stations, all track layouts. Volume 4 Fukuoka Area] (in Japanese). Kodansha. pp. 47, 80. ISBN 9784062951630.
  4. "杵築" [Kitsuki]. Retrieved 29 April 2018. Blog entry with good photographic coverage of station facilities.
  5. "大分支店内各駅" [Stations within the Ōita Branch]. JRTE website. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
  6. "杵築駅" [Kitsuki Station]. jr-mars.dyndns.org. Retrieved 29 April 2018. See images of tickets sold.
  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). I. Tokyo: JTB Corporation. pp. 228–9. ISBN 4533029809.
  8. 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. 752. ISBN 4533029809.
  9. "観光客と町つなぐ　ＪＲ杵築駅に「案内所」" [Connecting tourists and the town Information Centre at JR Kitsuki Station]. Ōita Godo Shimbun website. 21 February 2015. Archived from the original on 2 December 2015. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
  10. "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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