Kubota Station (Saga)

Kubota Station (久保田駅, Kubota-eki) is a railway station operated by JR Kyushu in Saga City, Saga Prefecture, Japan. It is on the Nagasaki Main Line and is also the starting point and eastern terminus of the Karatsu Line.[1][2]

Kubota Station

久保田駅
Kubota Station in 2005
Coordinates33°13′9″N 130°9′40″E
Operated by JR Kyushu
Line(s)
Distance
  • 31.4 km from Tosu (Nagasaki Main Line)
  • 0.0 km (starting point of the Karatsu Line)
Platforms1 side + 1 island platforms
Tracks3 + 2 sidings
Construction
Structure typeAt grade
Bicycle facilitiesBike shed
Other information
StatusUnstaffed
WebsiteOfficial website
History
OpenedOctober 10, 1896 (1896-10-10)
Passengers
FY2016614 daily
Rank219th
Location
Kubota Station
Location within Japan

Lines

The station is served by the Nagasaki Main Line, located 31.4 km from the starting point of the line at Tosu and is also the starting point of the Karatsu Line.[3]

Station layout

The station, which is unstaffed, consists of a side and an island platform serving three tracks. A small station building, of simple concrete construction, serves as a waiting room and houses an automatic ticket vending machine. Access to the opposite side platform is by means of a footbridge. Two sidings branch off track 1 and are used by track maintenance equipment. There is a stone monument in front of the station which claims that Kubota Station opened on 10 October 1896. A bike shed is located in front of the station.[2][3]

  • A view of the platforms and tracks.
  • A view from platform 1. The sidings can be seen on the left.
  • The old station building, as seen in 1990.

Environs

In front of the station are various shops. To the north of the station are fields. To the south of the station are many businesses and residences.

Adjacent stations
« Service »
Nagasaki Main Line
 Local Ushizu
Karatsu Line
Terminus Local Ogi

History

The station was opened on 10 October 1896 by the private Kyushu Railway as an additional station on a stretch of track which, by 1895, it had laid from Tosu to Yamaguchi (today Hizen-Yamaguchi) and Takeo (today Takeo-Onsen). On 14 December 1903, another stretch of track which the Kyushu Railway had acquired in 1902 between Miyoken (today Nishi-Karatsu) and Azamibaru (today Taku) was extended south and linked up at Kubota. When the Kyushu Railway was nationalized on 1 July 1907, Japanese Government Railways (JGR) took over control of the station. On 12 October 1909, the track to Yamaguchi became the Nagasaki Main Line while the track to Nishi-Karatsu became the Karatsu Line. With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR), the successor of JGR, on 1 April 1987, control of the station passed to JR Kyushu.[4][5]

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2016, the station was used by an average of 614 passengers daily (boarding passengers only), and it ranked 219th among the busiest stations of JR Kyushu.[6]

See also

References
  1. "JR Kyushu Route Map" (PDF). JR Kyushu. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
  2. "久保田" [Kubota]. hacchi-no-he.net. Retrieved 13 March 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. 19, 65. ISBN 9784062951647.
  4. 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. 222–3. ISBN 4533029809.
  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). II. Tokyo: JTB Corporation. pp. 713–4, 719. ISBN 4533029809.
  6. "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 25 February 2018.


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