Nakabaru Station

Nakabaru Station (中原駅, Nakabaru-eki) is a passenger railway station located in the town of Miyaki, Miyaki District, Saga Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by JR Kyushu and is on the Nagasaki Main Line.^[1][2]

JH  04  Nakabaru Station 中原駅
Nakabaru Station in 2017
General information
Location	Harukoga, Miyaki-cho, Miyaki-gun, Saga-ken 849-0101 Japan
Coordinates	33°20′46″N 130°26′24″E
Operated by	JR Kyushu
Line(s)	JH Nagasaki Main Line
Distance	8.5 km from Tosu
Platforms	1 side + 1 island platforms
Tracks	3 + 1 siding
Construction
Structure type	At grade
Accessible	No - platforms linked by footbridge
Other information
Status	Staffed ticket window (outsourced)
Website	Official website
History
Opened	20 August 1891 (1891-08-20)
Passengers
FY2022	920 daily
Rank	143rd (among JR Kyushu stations)
Services
Preceding station JR Kyushu Following station Yoshinogari-kōen towards Nagasaki Nagasaki Line Hizen-Fumoto towards Tosu
Location Nakabaru Station Location within Saga Prefecture Show map of Saga Prefecture Nakabaru Station Nakabaru Station (Japan) Show map of Japan

Lines

The station is served by the Nagasaki Main Line and is located 8.5 km from the starting point of the line at Tosu.^[3]

Station layout

The station consists of a side platform and an island platform serving three tracks with a siding branching off track 1. A small station building of concrete construction houses a waiting area, a staffed ticket window and automatic ticket vending machines. Access to the island platform is by means of a footbridge.^[3][2]

Management of the station has been outsourced to the JR Kyushu Tetsudou Eigyou Co., a wholly owned subsidiary of JR Kyushu specialising in station services. It staffs the ticket window which is equipped with a POS machine but does not have a Midori no Madoguchi facility.^[4][5]

Platforms

1	■ JH Nagasaki Main Line	for Saga and Nagasaki
2, 3	■ JH Nagasaki Main Line	for Tosu

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  A view of the platforms and tracks.

History

The station was opened on 20 August 1891 by the private Kyushu Railway as an intermediate station on a track which it opened between Tosu and Saga. When the Kyushu Railway was nationalized on 1 July 1907, Japanese Government Railways (JGR) took over control of the station. On 12 October 1909, the station became part of the Nagasaki Main Line. The With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR), the successor of JGR, on 1 April 1987, control of the station passed to JR Kyushu.^[6][7]

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2020, the station was used by an average of 920 passengers daily (boarding passengers only), and it ranked 143rd among the busiest stations of JR Kyushu.^[8]

Surrounding area

The station is in a residential district.

• Miyaki Town Nakabaru Government Building
• Ayabe Shrine (enshrining the wind god)
• Saga Prefectural Miyaki High School
• Saga Prefectural Nakahara Special Needs School

See also

• List of railway stations in Japan

References

1. "JR Kyushu Route Map" (PDF). JR Kyushu. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
2. "中原" [Nakabaru]. hacchi-no-he.net. Retrieved 13 March 2018.
3. Kawashima, Ryōzō (2013). 図説: 日本の鉄道 四国・九州ライン 全線・全駅・全配線・第5巻 長崎 佐賀 エリア [Japan Railways Illustrated. Shikoku and Kyushu. All lines, all stations, all track layouts. Volume 5 Nagasaki Saga area] (in Japanese). Kodansha. pp. 16, 64. ISBN 9784062951647.
4. "福岡支店内各駅" [Stations within the Fukuoka Branch]. JRTE website. Retrieved 13 March 2018.
5. "中原駅" [Nakabaru Station]. jr-mars.dyndns.org. Retrieved 13 March 2018. See images of tickets sold.
6. Ishino, Tetsu; et al., eds. (1998). 停車場変遷大事典 国鉄・JR編 [Station Transition Directory – JNR/JR] (in Japanese). Vol. I. Tokyo: JTB Corporation. pp. 222–3. ISBN 4-533-02980-9.
7. Ishino, Tetsu; et al., eds. (1998). 停車場変遷大事典 国鉄・JR編 [Station Transition Directory – JNR/JR] (in Japanese). Vol. II. Tokyo: JTB Corporation. p. 712. ISBN 4-533-02980-9.
8. "駅別乗車人員上位300駅（2020年度）" (PDF). Retrieved 2023-09-08.

External links

Media related to Nakabaru Station at Wikimedia Commons

• Nakabaru Station (JR Kyushu)(in Japanese)