Shitanoe Station

Shitanoe Station
下ノ江駅
Shitanoe Station in 2008
Location Japan
Coordinates 33°09′31″N 131°48′41″E / 33.15861°N 131.81139°E / 33.15861; 131.81139Coordinates: 33°09′31″N 131°48′41″E / 33.15861°N 131.81139°E / 33.15861; 131.81139
Operated by JR Kyushu
Line(s) ■ Nippō Main Line
Distance 161.1 km from Kokura
Platforms 1 island platform
Tracks 2 + 1 siding
Construction
Disabled access No - island platform accessed by footbridge
Other information
Status Unstaffed
Website Official website
History
Opened 15 August 1915 (1915-08-15)
Traffic
Passengers (FY2015) 53 daily
Location
Shitanoe Station
Location within Japan

Shitanoe Station (下ノ江駅, Shitanoe-eki) is a railway station in Usuki, Oita, Japan. It is operated by JR Kyushu and is on the Nippō Main Line.[1][2]

Lines

The station is served by the Nippō Main Line and is located 161.1 km from the starting point of the line at Kokura.[3]

Layout

The station, which is not staffed, consists of an island platform serving at grade. The station building is an old Japanese style structure with a ticket window which is now not staffed and serves only as a waiting room. A footbridge gives access to the island platform where there is another enclosed waiting room which houses an automatic ticket vending machine. A siding branches off the main tracks and terminates in a vehicle shed. Along this siding can be seen the remains of a disused freight platform.[3][2][4]

Adjacent stations

←Service→
Nippō Main Line
Sashiu Local Kumasaki

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 Usuki opening as the new southern terminus on 15 August 1915. On the same day, Shitanoe was opened as one of several intermediate statIns along 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.[5][6]

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2015, there were a total of 19,343 boarding passengers, giving a daily average of 53 passengers.[7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "JR Kyushu Route Map" (PDF). JR Kyushu. Retrieved 23 February 2018.
  2. 1 2 "下ノ江" [Shitanoe]. hacchi-no-he.net. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  3. 1 2 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. 45, 82. ISBN 9784062951654.
  4. ↑ "下ノ江駅" [Shitanoe Station]. March 2008. Retrieved 19 June 2018. Blog entry with good photographic coverage of station facilities.
  5. ↑ 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.
  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). II. Tokyo: JTB Corporation. p. 754. ISBN 4533029809.
  7. ↑ "平成28年版　大分県統計年鑑 11 運輸および通信" [Oita Prefecture Statistics Yearbook 2016 Edition Section 11 Transportation and Comunications]. Oita Prefectural Government website. Retrieved 19 June 2018. See table 128 Transport situation by individual railway stations (JR Kyushu JR Freight).
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