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Railway station in Ibusuki, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nigatsuden Station (二月田駅, Nigatsuden-eki) is a passenger railway station located in the city of Ibusuki, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by JR Kyushu.[1][2]
Nigatsuden Station in 2005 | |||||||||||
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Location | 147 Jūchō, Ibusuki-shi, Kagoshima-ken 891-0402 Japan | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 31°15′15.28″N 130°37′48.21″E | ||||||||||
Operated by | ![]() | ||||||||||
Line(s) | ■ Ibusuki Makurazaki Line | ||||||||||
Distance | 43.4 km from Kagoshima-Chūō | ||||||||||
Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||
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Status | Unstaffed | ||||||||||
Website | Official website | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
Opened | 19 December 1934 | ||||||||||
Passengers | |||||||||||
FY2020 | 318 daily | ||||||||||
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The station is served by the Ibusuki Makurazaki Line and is located 43.4 km from the starting point of the line at Kagoshima-Chūō.[1]
This is an above-ground station with one side platform and one track. The wooden station building is old, and some of the six old rails supporting the platform roof are engraved with marks indicating that they were manufactured by Deutsche Krupp (now ThyssenKrupp) in the early 1900s. It is an unattended station
The station was opened on 19 December 1934 by the Japanese Government Railways (JGR) . On 31 October 1961 with the name of the line is changed to the Ibusuki Makurazaki Line. With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR), the successor of JGR, on 1 April 1987, JR Kyushu took over control of the station.[3][4] .
In fiscal 2020, the station was used by an average of 318 passengers daily (boarding passengers only), and it ranked 270th among the busiest stations of JR Kyushu.[5]
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