Kami Tanoura Station (上田浦駅, Kami Tanoura-eki) i is a passenger railway station in the town of Agukita, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. It is served by the third-sector railway company Hisatsu Orange Railway[3][4]
Kami Tanoura Station 上田浦駅 | |||||||
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 Kami Tanoura Stationin 2006 | |||||||
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| Location | Imuta, Ashikita-mchi, Ashikita-gun, Kumamoto-ken 869-5307 Japan | ||||||
| Coordinates | 32°23′34″N 130°31′07″E / 32.3928723°N 130.5185212°E[1] | ||||||
| Operated by | Hisatsu Orange Railway Co., Ltd. | ||||||
| Line(s) | Hisatsu Orange Railway | ||||||
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| Platforms | 1 island platform | ||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||
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| Structure type | At-grade | ||||||
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| Website | Official (in Japanese) | ||||||
| History | |||||||
| Opened | 10 October 1952 | ||||||
| Original company | Japanese National Railways | ||||||
| Passengers | |||||||
| FY2019 | 18 | ||||||
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Lines
editThe station is served by the Hisatsu Orange Railway Line that follows the former coastal route of the JR Kyushu Kagoshima Main Line connecting Yatsushiro and Sendai. It is located 18.0 km from the starting point of the line at Yatsushiro.[5]
Station layout
editThe station consists of one island platform at street level, connected by a footbridge and two tracks. There is no station building, but a i front of the station, there is a log cabin-style bicycle parking lot built in 1990, which is often mistaken for a station building. The station is unattended.[5][3]
Platforms
edit| 1 | ■ ■ Hisatsu Orange Railway | for Minamata and Izumi |
| 2 | ■ ■ Hisatsu Orange Railway | for Yatsushiro and Shin-Yatsushiro |
Gallery
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Station sign -
Bicycle garage
Adjacent stations
edit| « | Service | » | ||
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| Hisatsu Orange Railway Line | ||||
| Higo Futami | – | Tanoura Otachimisaki Park | ||
| Rapid Express Super Orange: Does not stop at this station | ||||
History
editKami Tanoura Station was opened on 10 October 1952 as a station on the Japan National Railways (JNR) Kagoshima Main Line. With the privatization of the JNR on 1 April 1987, the station was transferred to JR Kyushu. On 13 March 2004, with the opening of the Kyushu Shinkansen, the station was transferred to the Hisatsu Orange Railway.
Passenger statistics
editThe average daily passenger traffic in fiscal 2019 was 18 passengers.[6]
Surrounding area
edit- Koganegahama Beach
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Node: Kami-Tanoura (2012814808)". OpenStreetMap. Retrieved 2017-11-14.
- ^ "上田浦駅". [レイルラボ | RailLab] (in Japanese). Retrieved 2017-11-25.
- ^ a b "上田浦駅" [Kami Tanoura Station]. hacchi-no-he.net. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
- ^ "上田浦駅 各駅案内". 肥薩おれんじ鉄道 (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2016-05-07. Retrieved 2017-11-14.
- ^ a b 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5巻 長崎 佐賀 エリア [Japan Railways Illustrated. Shikoku and Kyushu. All lines, all stations, all track layouts. Volume 5 Nagasaki Saga area] (in Japanese). Kodansha. pp. 22, 67. ISBN 9784062951647.
- ^ National Land Numerical Information (passenger traffic by station data) - Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, accessed September 6, 2021.
External links
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Media related to Kami-Tanoura Station at Wikimedia Commons- Hisatsu Orange Railway site (in Japanese)
- Yahoo! Japan Transit station guide
