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Kitsuki Station

杵築駅
Kitsuki Station; 杵築駅
	Kitsuki Station in February 2009
General information
Location	Yasaka, Kitsuki-shi, Oita-ken 873-0015; Japan
Coordinates	33°24′40″N 131°34′32″E / 33.41111°N 131.57556°E
Operated by	JR Kyushu
Line(s)	■ Nippō Main Line
Distance	99.2 km from Kokura
Platforms	1 side + 1 island platforms
Tracks	3 + 2 sidings
Construction
Structure type	At grade
Accessible	No - platforms linked by footbridge
Other information
Status	Staffed ticket window (Midori no Madoguchi) (outsourced)
Website	Official website
History
Opened	22 March 1911
Passengers
FY2016	758 daily
Rank	195th (among JR Kyushu stations)
Services
Location
Location
	Kitsuki Station Location within Oita Prefecture Kitsuki Station Kitsuki Station (Japan)

Kitsuki Station (杵築駅, Kitsuki-eki) is a passenger railway station located in the city of Kitsuki, Ōita Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by JR Kyushu.^[1]^[2]

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 platform 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]

Platforms

1	■ ■ Nippō Main Line	for Nakatsu and Kokura
2, 3	■ ■ Nippō Main Line	for Beppu and Ōita

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]

Surrounding area

Oita Airport Road
Oita Prefectural Kitsuki High School
Kitsuki City Yasaka Elementary School

References

^ "JR Kyushu Route Map" (PDF). JR Kyushu. Retrieved 23 February 2018.
^ ^a ^b "杵築" [Kitsuki]. hacchi-no-he.net. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
^ ^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.
^ "杵築" [Kitsuki]. Retrieved 29 April 2018. Blog entry with good photographic coverage of station facilities.
^ "大分支店内各駅" [Stations within the Ōita Branch]. JRTE website. Archived from the original on 6 April 2019. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
^ "杵築駅" [Kitsuki Station]. jr-mars.dyndns.org. Retrieved 29 April 2018. See images of tickets sold.
^ 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). Vol. I. Tokyo: JTB Corporation. pp. 228–9. ISBN 4-533-02980-9.
^ 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). Vol. II. Tokyo: JTB Corporation. p. 752. ISBN 4-533-02980-9.
^ "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.
^ "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.