Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
. It is operated by JR Kyushu and is on the Nagasaki Main Line.
Oe Station has one of the shortest station names in Japan. The others are
Ei Station
is a railway station located in Minamikyūshū, Kagoshima, Japan. The station is unmanned and opened in 1960.
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Kagoshima Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyushu and the Ryukyu Islands. Kagoshima Prefecture has a population of 1,599,779 (1 January 2020) and has a geographic area of 9,187 km2 (3,547 sq mi). Kagoshima Prefecture borders Kumamoto P ...
Hyōgo Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Hyōgo Prefecture has a population of 5,469,762 () and has a geographic area of . Hyōgo Prefecture borders Kyoto Prefecture to the east, Osaka Prefecture to the southeast, an ...
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Ii Station
is a passenger railway station located in the city of Hgi, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by the West Japan Railway Company (JR West).The station is promoted by a local government as "the station with the shortest Latin name", ...
The station is served by the Nagasaki Main Line and is located 90.9 km from the starting point of the line at .
Station layout
The station consists of an island platform two tracks. The station building is a metal cabin and is unstaffed, serving only as a waiting room with an automatic ticket vending machine. Access to the island platform is by means of a footbridge.
File:JRKyushu Oe Station 2.jpg, A view of the platform and tracks.
Adjacent stations
History
Japanese Government Railways (JGR) built the station in the 1930s during the development of an alternative route for the Nagasaki Main Line along the coast of the Ariake Sea. In a phase of construction of what was at first called the Ariake West Line, a track was built from (on the existing Nagasaki Main Line) north to which opened on 24 March 1934 as the terminus of the track. Oe was opened on the same day as an intermediate station on this stretch of track. A few months later, link up was made from Yue to (which had been extended south from ). With through traffic achieved from Hizen-Yamaguchi on the new route to Nagasaki, the entire stretch of track was designated as part of the Nagasaki Main Line on 1 December 1934. 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 2014, there were a total of 52,823 boarding passengers, given a daily average of 145 passengers. See table at section under Transportation and Communications.
Station environs
To the south of the station is the Ariake Sea. Route 207 runs along the coast. Other locations nearby include:
*Takaki Nishi Elementary School
*Isahaya Senior High School, Takaki Branch
*Shinkai Post Office