Nobeoka Station

Station building

Nobeoka Station (延岡駅, Nobeoka-eki) is a railway station of JR Kyushu Nippō Main Line in Nobeoka, Miyazaki, Japan.

Served by the Nippō Main Line, the station was also the terminus of the Takachiho Railway until 2007.

History

In 1913, the Miyazaki Prefectural Railway (宮崎県営鉄道) had opened a line from Miyazaki northwards to Hirose (now closed). After the Miyazaki Prefectural Railway was nationalized on 21 September 1917, Japanese Government Railways (JGR) undertook the subsequent extension of the track which it designated as the Miyazaki Main Line. Expanding north in phases, the track reached Nobeoka which was established as the northern terminus on 1 May 1922. It became a through-station on 29 October 1922 when the track was extended to Hyūga-Nagai. By 1923, the track had approached the southern terminus of the then Hoshū Line which JGR had been extending southwards from Kokura down the east coast of Kyushu to reach Shigeoka by March 1922. The link up between the two lines was achieved on 15 December 1923, and through traffic was thus established from Kokura through Nobeoka to Miyakonojō. The entire stretch of track was then 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.[1][2][3]

References

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ 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. 757. ISBN 4533029809.
  3. ↑ 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.

Coordinates: 32°35′23″N 131°40′20″E / 32.58972°N 131.67222°E / 32.58972; 131.67222

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