is a railway station on the

Kyūdai Main Line The is a railway line in Kyushu, Japan, operated by the Kyushu Railway Company (JR Kyushu). It connects Kurume Station, Kurume in Fukuoka Prefecture and Ōita Station, Ōita in Ōita Prefecture. It is also known as the Yufu Kōgen Line. The ...

in Kokonoe,

Ōita Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyūshū. Ōita Prefecture has a population of 1,136,245 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of 6,340 km2 (2,448 sq mi). Ōita Prefecture borders Fukuoka Prefecture to the northwest, Kum ...

, Japan.

Lines

The station is served by the

and is located 83.1 km from the starting point of the line at .

Layout

The station consists of two side platforms serving two tracks at grade. The station building, rebuilt in 2010, is a traditional Japanese design with a thatched roof. It houses a waiting area as well as the premises and information centre of the Kokonoe Town Tourism Association. The association also acts as a kan'i itaku agent and manages the ticket window which is equipped with a POS machine but does not have a ''Midori no Madoguchi'' facility. Access to the opposite side platform is by means of a footbridge.

Adjacent stations

History

The private had opened a track between and in 1915. The Daito Railway was nationalized on 1 December 1922, after which

Japanese Government Railways The Japanese Government Railways (JGR) was the national railway system directly operated by the Japanese Ministry of Railways ( ja, 鉄道省, Tetsudō-shō, ) until 1949. It was a predecessor of Japanese National Railways and the later Japan Ra ...

(JGR) undertook phased westward expansion of the track which, at the time, it had designated as the Daito Line. By 1926, the track had reached . Subsequently, the track was extended further west and Bungo-Nakamura was opened as the new western terminus on 28 October 1928. On 15 December 1929, Bungo-Nakamura became a through-station when the track was again extended to . On 15 November 1934, when the Daito Line had linked up with the Kyudai Main Line further west, JGR designated the station as part of the Kyudai Main Line. With the privatization of

Japanese National Railways The abbreviated JNR or , was the business entity that operated Japan's national railway network from 1949 to 1987. Network Railways As of June 1, 1949, the date of establishment of JNR, it operated of narrow gauge () railways in all 46 pref ...

(JNR), the successor of JGR, on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR Kyushu. The original station building was a Japanese style timber building with a tiled roof. This was rebuilt in 2010 by Kokonoe Town authorities. The new building was still in traditional Japanese style with white plaster walls and a thatched roof. In April 2011, local residents opened a cafeteria in the station building which served meals made from local ingredients but this closed in March 2013. Subsequently, the Kokonoe Town Tourism Association moved its offices to the station building and set up an information centre there in October 2013. file:Kyushu Railway - Bungo-Nakamura Station - 01.JPG, The old station building. This picture was taken in 2008.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2015, there were a total of 28,340 boarding passengers, giving a daily average of 78 passengers. See table 128 Transport situation by individual railway stations (JR Kyushu JR Freight).

References

External links

Bungo-Nakamura (JR Kyushu)
Railway stations in Ōita Prefecture Railway stations in Japan opened in 1928 {{oita-rail-station-stub