is a railway station in
Yatsushiro
is a city located in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan.
Geography
Located at the geographic center of Kyushu, Yatsushiro City is situated on the aptly named Yatsushiro Sea in between Kumamoto and Ashikita City.
Climate
Yatsushiro has a humid subtro ...
,
Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, operated by
Kyushu Railway Company (JR Kyushu).
Layout
A special elevated spur runs from north of the station to the Shinkansen platform. From 2004 to 2011,
''Relay Tsubame'' limited express trains from Hakata on the
Kagoshima Line
The is a major railway line operated by the Kyushu Railway Company (JR Kyushu) between Mojikō in Kitakyushu, and Kagoshima Station in Kagoshima City, at the southern end of Kyushu. Until March 13, 2004, it extended 393 km between its tw ...
provided the link to the Shinkansen line, and Shin-Yatsushiro was designed to facilitate an easy and fast connection between the ''Relay Tsubame'' train and the ''Tsubame'' shinkansen train on the same platform.
The spur line is not used by regular services, but was utilized in 2014 for reliability trials of the
Gauge Change Train between
Kumamoto
is the capital city of Kumamoto Prefecture on the island of Kyushu, Japan. , the city has an estimated population of 738,907 and a population density of 1,893 people per km2. The total area is 390.32 km2.
had a population of 1,461,000, ...
and
Kagoshima-Chuo Station, including gauge changing on the spur line.
The trials were originally planned to run for three years starting in April 2014, but were suspended that December after defects were found in the train bogies.
History
The station opened on 13 March 2004, to coincide with the opening of a section of the
Kyushu Shinkansen
The is a Japanese Shinkansen high-speed railway network. It is an extension of the San'yō Shinkansen from Honshu connecting the city of Fukuoka (Hakata Station) in the north of Japan's Kyushu Island to the city of Kagoshima ( Kagoshima-Chuo St ...
high speed railway line. The Kyushu Shinkansen ''Tsubame'' was operational from Shin-Yatushiro to Kagoshima-Chuo station in
Kagoshima until 2011, when the
Shinkansen
The , colloquially known in English as the bullet train, is a network of high-speed railway lines in Japan. Initially, it was built to connect distant Japanese regions with Tokyo, the capital, to aid economic growth and development. Beyond l ...
was extended north to
Hakata station
is a major railway station in Hakata-ku, Fukuoka, Japan. It is the largest and busiest railway terminal in Kyushu, and is a gateway to other cities in Kyushu for travelers coming from Honshu by rail travel. The San'yō Shinkansen from Osaka end ...
in
Fukuoka
is the sixth-largest city in Japan, the second-largest port city after Yokohama, and the capital city of Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. The city is built along the shores of Hakata Bay, and has been a center of international commerce since anc ...
and joined with the
Sanyo Shinkansen
, stylized as SANYO, is a Japanese electronics company and formerly a member of the ''Fortune'' Global 500 whose headquarters was located in Moriguchi, Osaka prefecture, Japan. Sanyo had over 230 subsidiaries and affiliates, and was founded by ...
line.
On 8 November 2021, a man was arrested at the station after an attempted arson onboard a
Sakura service.
See also
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List of railway stations in Japan
The links below contain all of the 8579 railway stations in Japan.
External links
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Railway stations
A train station, railway station, railroad station or depot is a railway facility where trains stop to ...
References
External links
Station Information (JR Kyushu)
Railway stations in Japan opened in 2004
Railway stations in Kumamoto Prefecture
Rail transport articles in need of updating
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