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Naka-Taku Station (中多久駅, Naka-Taku-eki) is a passenger railway station on the Karatsu Line operated by JR Kyushu located in the city of Taku, Saga Prefecture, Japan.[1][2]
Naka-Taku Station 中多久駅  | |||||||||||
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 Naka-Taku Station in 2008 | |||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||
| Location | Minamitakumachi Oaza Nagao, Taku-shi, Saga-ken 846-0023 Japan | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 33°17′00″N 130°06′44″E | ||||||||||
| Operated by | .svg){kind=logo} JR Kyushu | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | JK Karatsu Line | ||||||||||
| Distance | 13.6 km from Kubota | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 1 | ||||||||||
| Construction | |||||||||||
| Structure type | At grade | ||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | Bike shed | ||||||||||
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| Status | Unstaffed | ||||||||||
| Website | Official website | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | 1 April 1964 | ||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||
| FY2016 | 360 daily | ||||||||||
| Rank | 252nd (among JR Kyushu stations) | ||||||||||
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The station is served by the Karatsu Line and is located 13.6 km from the starting point of the line at Kubota.[3]
The station consists of a side platform serving a single track. A simple prefabricated station building is unstaffed and houses a waiting room and an automatic ticket vending machine. A bike shed is located nearby.[2][3]
Japanese National Railways (JNR) opened the station on 1 April 1964 as an additional station on the existing track of the Karatsu Line. With the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987, control of the station passed to JR Kyushu.[4][5]
In fiscal 2020, the station was used by an average of 360 passengers daily (boarding passengers only), and it ranked 242nd among the busiest stations of JR Kyushu.[6]
