is a railway station in

Aira, Kagoshima is a city located in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. It is located west of Kirishima and north of Kagoshima. The modern city of Aira was established on March 23, 2010, from the merger of the former town of Aira, absorbing the towns of Kajiki a ...

, Japan. It is operated by of JR Kyushu and is on the Nippō Main Line.

Lines

The station is served by the Nippō Main Line and is located 445.5 km from the starting point of the line at .

Layout

The station consists of a side platform and an island platform serving three tracks at grade. The station building is a wooden building in European style with a sloping tiled roof. It houses a waiting area, automatic ticket vending machines,

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card readers and a staffed ticket window. Access to the island platform is by means of a footbridge. Management of the passenger facilities at 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. File:Chosa Station plathome1.jpg, A view of platforms and tracks. File:Chosa station4.jpg, A view of the ticket gate with a SUGOCA card reader. The ticket window is to the left.

Platforms

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Adjacent stations

History

The station was opened on 1 April 1926 by Japanese Government Railways (JGR) as an additional station on the existing track of what was then part of the route of the Kagoshima Main Line. By 1927, however, another track had been laid from through down the west coast of Kyushu to Kagoshima and this was now designated as part of the Kagoshima Main Line. The route from Yatsushiro through and Chōsa to Kagoshima was then designated as the Hisatsu Line on 17 October 1927. By the end of 1932, further expansion and link ups with other networks to the east of Hayato had resulted in another line providing through-traffic from the north of Kyushu at to Kagoshima down the east coast of Kyushu. The entire stretch of this track was then redesignated as the Nippō Main Line on 6 December 1932. With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR), the successor of JGR, on 1 April 1987, Chōsa came under the control of JR Kyushu.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2016, the station was used by an average of 1,491 passengers daily (boarding passengers only), and it ranked 117th among the busiest stations of JR Kyushu.

Nearby places

*Aira City Hall *Aira City Library * Japan National Route 10

References

External links

Chōsa (JR Kyushu)
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1926 Railway stations in Kagoshima Prefecture {{Kagoshima-railstation-stub