is a railway station located in Imari, Saga Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by JR Kyushu and is on the

Chikuhi Line The is a railway line in Kyushu, Japan, connecting Meinohama Station in Fukuoka, Fukuoka (and via a subway through service, Fukuoka itself) to Karatsu Station in Karatsu, Saga, and from Yamamoto Station in Karatsu to Imari Station in Imari, ...

Lines

The station is served by the western section of the

and is 14.3 km from the starting point of this section at .

Station layout

The station, which is unstaffed, consists of a side platform serving a single track. The station building is an old timber structure of traditional Japanese design which serves only as a waiting room.

Adjacent stations

History

The private Kitakyushu Railway, which had a track between and by 1926 and had expanded southwards to by 1929. In a later phase of expansion, the track was extended west from Yamamoto to , which opened as the western terminus on 1 March 1935. This station was opened on the same day as an intermediate station on the new track. The Kitakyushu Railway was nationalised on 1 October 1937 and Japanese Government Railways (JGR) assumed control of the station and designated the track which served it as part of the Chikuhi 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.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2015, there were a total of 7,092 boarding passengers, giving a daily average of 19 passengers. See table 12-7 at section under Transportation and Communications.

Environs

*Imari City Tōryō Junior High School

References

External links

Hizen-Nagano (JR Kyushu)
Railway stations in Saga Prefecture Stations of Kyushu Railway Company Chikuhi Line Railway stations in Japan opened in 1935 {{Saga-railstation-stub