Kami Sendai Station (上川内駅, Kami Sendai-eki) is a passenger railway station located in the city of Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by third-sector railway company Hisatsu Orange Railway.[2][3]
Kami Sendai Station
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 Kami Sendai Station in 2007 | |||||||
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| Location | 28 Goryōshitachō, Satsumasendai-shi, Kagoshima-ken 895-0061 Japan | ||||||
| Coordinates | 31°50′7.33″N 130°17′32.66″E / 31.8353694°N 130.2924056°E | ||||||
| Operated by | Hisatsu Orange Railway Co., Ltd. | ||||||
| Line(s) | ■ Hisatsu Orange Railway Line | ||||||
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| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||
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| Structure type | At-grade | ||||||
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| Station code | OR27 | ||||||
| Website | Official website (in Japanese) | ||||||
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| Opened | 1 July 1922 | ||||||
| Original company | Japanese Government Railways | ||||||
| Passengers | |||||||
| FY2019 | 219 | ||||||
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Lines
editThe station is served by the Hisatsu Orange Railway Line that follows the former coastal route of the JR Kyushu Kagoshima Main Line connecting Yatsushiro and Sendai.[4] It is located 113.7 km from the starting point of the line at Yatsushiro.[2]
Station layout
editThe station is an above-ground station with two side platforms and two tracks. It has a reinforced concrete station building built in 1952, and when it was a manned station, it had a stationmaster's office, a railway parcel window, and a ticket counter, but is now unattended.
Platforms
edit| 1 | ■ ■ Hisatsu Orange Railway | for Sendai |
| 2 | ■ ■Hisatsu Orange Railway | for Izumi, Minamata, and Yatsushiro |
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Station sign -
View of platforms and shelter
Adjacent stations
edit| « | Service | » | ||
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| Hisatsu Orange Railway Line | ||||
| Kusamichi | – | Sendai | ||
| Rapid Express Super Orange: Does not stop at this station | ||||
History
editKami Sendai Station was opened on 1 July 1922 as a station on the Japanese Government Railways Sendai Line, which was incorporated into the Kagoshima Main Line on 17 October 1927. With the privatization of the Japan National Railways on 1 April 1987, the station was transferred to JR Kyushu. On 13 March 2004, with the opening of the Kyushu Shinkansen, the station was transferred to the Hisatsu Orange Railway.
Passenger statistics
editThe average daily passenger traffic in fiscal 2019 was 219 people. [5]
Surrounding area
edit- Kagoshima Prefectural Sendai High School
- Japan National Route 3
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "上川内駅". [レイルラボ | RailLab] (in Japanese). Retrieved 2017-11-25.
- ^ a b 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. 22, 67. ISBN 9784062951647.
- ^ "上川内駅" [Kami Sendai Station]. hacchi-no-he.net. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
- ^ "肥後高田駅". 駅探 (in Japanese). Retrieved 2017-11-14.
- ^ National Land Numerical Information (passenger traffic by station data) - Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, accessed September 6, 2021.
External links
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Media related to Kami-Sendai Station at Wikimedia Commons- Official Hisatsu Orange Railway site (in Japanese)
- Yahoo! Japan Transit station guide
