Higashi-Taku Station

Higashi-Taku Station (東多久駅, Higashi-Taku-eki) is a railway station on the Karatsu Line operated by JR Kyushu located in Taku, Saga Prefecture, Japan.[1][2]

Higashi-Taku Station

東多久駅
-Higashi-Taku Station in 2009
LocationJapan
Coordinates33°17′07″N 130°08′37″E
Operated by JR Kyushu
Line(s)■ Karatsu Line
Distance10.6 km from Kubota
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2 + 1 siding
Construction
Structure typeAt grade
Disabled accessNo - platforms linked by footbridge
Other information
StatusUnstaffed
WebsiteOfficial website
History
Opened14 December 1903 (1903-12-14)
Previous namesBefu (until 1 June 1911)
Location
Higashi-Taku Station
Location within Japan

Lines

The station is served by the Karatsu Line and is located 10.6 km from the starting point of the line at Kubota.[3]

Station layout

The station, which is unstaffed, consists of two opposed side platforms serving two tracks. Access to the opposite side platform is by means of a footbridge. A waiting room and toilet building has been built near the footbridge. A siding branches off track 2.[2][3]

  • View of the platforms and tracks.

Adjacent stations
←Service→
Karatsu Line
Ogi Local Naka-Taku

History

The Karatsu Kogyo Railway had opened a track from Miyoken (now Nishi-Karatsu) which, by 25 December 1899, had reached Azamibaru (now Taku). On 23 February 1902, the company, now renamed the Karatsu Railway, merged with the Kyushu Railway which undertook the next phase of expansion. The track was extended east, with Kubota opening as the final eastern terminus on 14 December 1903. Higashi-Taku (then named Befu (別府)) opened on the same day as an intermediate station on the track. 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 line which served the station was designated the Karatsu Line. On 1 June 1911, the station was renamed Higashi-Taku. With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR), the successor of JGR, on 1 April 1987, control of the station passed to JR Kyushu.[4][5]

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2016, the daily average number of passengers using the station (boarding passengers only) was above 100 and below 323. The station did not rank among the top 300 busiest stations of JR Kyushu.[6]

Environs

References
  1. "JR Kyushu Route Map" (PDF). JR Kyushu. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
  2. "東多久" [Higashi-Taku]. hacchi-no-he.net. Retrieved 12 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. 18, 81. ISBN 9784062951647.
  4. 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). I. Tokyo: JTB Corporation. pp. 223–4. ISBN 4533029809.
  5. 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). II. Tokyo: JTB Corporation. p. 719. ISBN 4533029809.
  6. "駅別乗車人員上位300駅（平成28年度）" [Passengers embarking by station - Top 300 stations (Fiscal 2016)] (PDF). JR Kyushu. 31 July 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 August 2017. Retrieved 3 March 2018.


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