![]() -Higashi-Taku Station in 2009 | |||||||||||
General information | |||||||||||
Location | Higashitakumachi Oaza Befu, Taku-shi, Saga-ken 846-0012 Japan | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 33°17′07″N 130°08′37″E / 33.2853°N 130.1435°E | ||||||||||
Operated by |
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Line(s) | JK Karatsu Line | ||||||||||
Distance | 10.6 km from Kubota | ||||||||||
Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||
Tracks | 2 + 1 siding | ||||||||||
Construction | |||||||||||
Structure type | At grade | ||||||||||
Accessible | No - platforms linked by footbridge | ||||||||||
Other information | |||||||||||
Status | Unstaffed | ||||||||||
Website | Official website | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
Opened | 14 December 1903 | ||||||||||
Previous names | Befu (until 1 June 1911) | ||||||||||
Passengers | |||||||||||
FY2016 | 156 daily | ||||||||||
Services | |||||||||||
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Higashi-Taku Station (東多久駅, Higashi-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]
The station is served by the Karatsu Line and is located 10.6 km from the starting point of the line at Kubota. [3]
The station, which is unstaffed, consists of two opposed unnumbered 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]
south side | ■ JK Karatsu Line | for Karatsu and Nishi-Karatsu |
north side | ■ JK Karatsu Line | for Saga |
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 Station (別府駅)) 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]
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]
Media related to
Higashi-Taku Station at Wikimedia Commons
![]() -Higashi-Taku Station in 2009 | |||||||||||
General information | |||||||||||
Location | Higashitakumachi Oaza Befu, Taku-shi, Saga-ken 846-0012 Japan | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 33°17′07″N 130°08′37″E / 33.2853°N 130.1435°E | ||||||||||
Operated by |
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Line(s) | JK Karatsu Line | ||||||||||
Distance | 10.6 km from Kubota | ||||||||||
Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||
Tracks | 2 + 1 siding | ||||||||||
Construction | |||||||||||
Structure type | At grade | ||||||||||
Accessible | No - platforms linked by footbridge | ||||||||||
Other information | |||||||||||
Status | Unstaffed | ||||||||||
Website | Official website | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
Opened | 14 December 1903 | ||||||||||
Previous names | Befu (until 1 June 1911) | ||||||||||
Passengers | |||||||||||
FY2016 | 156 daily | ||||||||||
Services | |||||||||||
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Higashi-Taku Station (東多久駅, Higashi-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]
The station is served by the Karatsu Line and is located 10.6 km from the starting point of the line at Kubota. [3]
The station, which is unstaffed, consists of two opposed unnumbered 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]
south side | ■ JK Karatsu Line | for Karatsu and Nishi-Karatsu |
north side | ■ JK Karatsu Line | for Saga |
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 Station (別府駅)) 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]
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]
Media related to
Higashi-Taku Station at Wikimedia Commons