is a

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operated by

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in Saga City,

Saga Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyushu. Saga Prefecture has a population of 809,248 (1 August 2020) and has a geographic area of 2,440 km2 (942 sq mi). Saga Prefecture borders Fukuoka Prefecture to the northeast and Nagasak ...

, Japan. It is on the

Nagasaki Main Line The , or simply Nagasaki Line, is a railway line owned by the Kyushu Railway Company (JR Kyushu) connecting Tosu Station in Saga Prefecture to Nagasaki Station in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. There is a separate branch of this line from Kikitsu S ...

and is also the starting point and eastern terminus of the

Karatsu Line The is a regional railway line in Saga Prefecture, Japan, owned and operated by Kyushu Railway Company (JR Kyushu). It connects in Saga City to in Karatsu City, both in Saga Prefecture, Japan. The line was originally constructed to carry co ...

Lines

The station is served by the

, located 31.4 km from the starting point of the line at and is also the starting point of the

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. file:JRKyushu-Nagasaki-main-line-Kubota-station-platform-20091030.jpg, A view of the platforms and tracks. file:Platform of Kubota Station (Nagasaki Main Line & Karatsu Line) 3.jpg, A view from platform 1. The sidings can be seen on the left. file:Nagasaki-main-line-Kubota-station-building-19900828.jpg, 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. * National Route 34 * National Route 207 *Kobota Post Office

Adjacent stations

History

The station was opened on 10 October 1896 by the private

Kyushu Railway was a company that built and operated railways in Kyushu, one of four main islands of Japan. Most of its lines came under the control of Japanese Government Railways following nationalization in 1907, and many are now operated by Kyushu Railway ...

as an additional station on a stretch of track which, by 1895, it had laid from to Yamaguchi (today ) and Takeo (today ). On 14 December 1903, another stretch of track which the Kyushu Railway had acquired in 1902 between Miyoken (today ) and Azamibaru (today ) was extended south and linked up at Kubota. When the Kyushu Railway was nationalized on 1 July 1907,

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 Rai ...

(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 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, control of the station passed to JR Kyushu.

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.

References

External links

Kubota Station (JR Kyushu)
Railway stations in Saga Prefecture Nagasaki Main Line Railway stations in Japan opened in 1896 {{Saga-railstation-stub