is a passenger

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...

located in the Kita-ku ward of the city of Kumamoto,

Kumamoto Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyūshū. Kumamoto Prefecture has a population of 1,748,134 () and has a geographic area of . Kumamoto Prefecture borders Fukuoka Prefecture to the north, Ōita Prefecture t ...

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. It is operated by the private transportation company

Kumamoto Electric Railway The is a public transport company in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. It is abbreviated as or . The company was founded in 1909. The company operates railway and bus lines. Lines * Kikuchi Line (菊池線) ** Kami-Kumamoto — Kita-Kumamoto ...

Lines

The station is the terminus of the Fujisaki Line and is located 2.3km from the opposing terminus of the line at . Only local trains serve the station.

Layout

Fujisakigū-mae Station is a ground-level station with one

bay platform In the United Kingdom and in Australia, a bay platform is a dead-end railway platform at a railway station that has through lines. It is normal for bay platforms to be shorter than their associated through platforms. They must have a buffer stop ...

with one side used for boarding and the other for alighting. The station building is an eleven-story structure with a parking lot on the third to ninth floors. Fujisakigu-mae-STA Gate.jpg, Exit Gate Fujisakigu-mae-STA Platforms.jpg, Bay platform Fujisakigu-mae Station name.jpg, Signage

History

The station was opened on 1 October 1911 as the and was renamed the on 2 August 1913. It was elevated to a full station on 27 August 1913, becoming . It was renamed to its present name in 1924.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal year 2018 the station was used by an average of 2195 passengers daily.国土数値情報　駅別乗降客数データ
- 国土交通省、2020年9月19日閲覧

Surrounding area

*Kumamoto City Tsuboya Elementary School *

Kumamoto Castle is a hilltop Japanese castle located in Chūō-ku, Kumamoto, in Kumamoto Prefecture. It was a large and well-fortified castle. The is a concrete reconstruction built in 1960, but a number of ancillary wooden buildings remain of the original ca ...

Fujisaki Hachimangū is a Shinto shrine located in Chūō-ku, Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan. It is dedicated to Emperor Ōjin, Empress Jingū and Sumiyoshi Sanjin. History In 935, Fujisaki Hachimangu was established with the Bunrei of Iwashimizu Hachiman-gū Kyoto ...

References

External links

Official home page
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