Nakahanda Station

Nakahanda Station (中判田駅, Nakahanda-eki) is a railway station in Ōita City, Ōita Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by JR Kyushu and is on the Hōhi Main Line.[1][2]

Nakahanda Station

中判田駅
Nakahanda Station in 2006
LocationJapan
Coordinates33°09′52″N 131°38′20″E
Operated by JR Kyushu
Line(s)■ Hōhi Main Line
Distance136.3 km from Kumamoto
Platforms1 island platform
Tracks2 + 1 siding
Construction
Structure typeAt grade
Bicycle facilitiesDesignated parking area for bikes
Disabled accessNo - footbridge to island platform
Other information
StatusStaffed ticket window (outsourced)
WebsiteOfficial website
History
Opened1 April 1914 (1914-04-01)
Passengers
FY2016950 daily
Rank172nd (among JR Kyushu stations)
Location
Nakahanda Station
Location within Japan

Lines

The station is served by the Hōhi Main Line and is located 136.3 km from the starting point of the line at Kumamoto.[3]

Layout

The station consists of an island platform serving two tracks. The station building is an old wooden structure and houses a waiting area, a staffed ticket window, a SUGOCA charge machine and a SUGOCA card reader. Access to the island platform is by means of a footbridge.[2][3]

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 POS machine but does not have a Midori no Madoguchi facility.[4][5]

Adjacent stations
« Service »
Hōhi Main Line
Takenaka Local Ōita-Daigaku-mae
Ōita Limited express Aso Boy! Miemachi

Due to earthquake damage on the Hōhi Main Line, the Aso Boy! Limited Express from Kumamoto to Aso was suspended. From April 2017, the Aso Boy! began operating on an alternative route from Beppu through Ōita to Aso.

History

Japanese Government Railways (JGR) opened the station on 1 April 1914 as the western terminus of its Inukai Light Rail Line (犬飼軽便線) (later Inukai Line) from Ōita. Nakahanda became a through-station on 1 September 1916 when the track was extended further west to Takenaka. By 1928, the track had, extended west in phases, had linked up with the Miyagi Line (宮地線) reaching eastwards from Kumamoto. On 2 December 1928, the entire track from Kumamoto through Nakahanda to Ōita was designated as the Hōhi Main Line. With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR), the successor of JGR, on 1 April 1987, Takio came under the control of JR Kyushu.[6][7]

In September 2017, Typhoon Talim (Typhoon 18) damaged the Hōhi Main Line at several locations. Services between Aso and Nakahanda were suspended and replaced by bus services. Rail services were resumed on 2 October 2017.[8]

JR Kyushu had planned to convert Nakahanda (with several other stations in Ōita City) into an unstaffed, remotely-managed "Smart Support Station" by 17 March 2018 but after opposition from users, this was postponed, pending works to improve accessibility.[9]

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2016, the station was used by an average of 950 passengers daily (boarding passengers only), and it ranked 172nd among the busiest stations of JR Kyushu.[10]

See also

References
  1. "JR Kyushu Route Map" (PDF). JR Kyushu. Retrieved 23 February 2018.
  2. "中判田" [Nakahanda]. hacchi-no-he.net. Retrieved 15 April 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. 40, 79. ISBN 9784062951654.
  4. "大分支店内各駅" [Stations within the Ōita Branch]. JRTE website. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
  5. "中判田駅" [Nakahanda Station]. jr-mars.dyndns.org. Retrieved 15 April 2018. See images of tickets sold.
  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). I. Tokyo: JTB Corporation. p. 228. ISBN 4533029809.
  7. 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. 747. ISBN 4533029809.
  8. "10 月２日(月)からの日豊本線・豊肥本線の運転計画について(お知らせ)" [Operations plan for Nippo Main Line and Hōhi Main Line (notice)] (PDF). JR Kyushu. 29 September 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 September 2017. Retrieved 1 October 2017.
  9. "大分市内、牧駅除く７駅は無人化先送り　ＪＲ九州" [With exception of Maki, unstaffing of 7 stations in Ōita City postponed JR Kyushu]. Ōita Gōdō Shimbun. 15 February 2018. Archived from the original on 18 March 2018. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  10. "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.


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