Nijinomatsubara Station

Location
	Nijinomatsubara Station Location within Japan

Nijinomatsubara Station

虹ノ松原?
Nijinomatsubara Station ; 虹ノ松原?
	Nijinomatsubara Station in 2016
General information
Location	Kagami, Karatsu-shi, Saga-ken ; Japan
Coordinates	33°26′28″N 130°00′58″E / 33.441102°N 130.016096°E
Operated by	JR Kyushu
Line(s)	■ Chikuhi Line
Distance	37.5 km from Meinohama
Platforms	1 side platform
Tracks	1
Construction
Structure type	At grade
Parking	Available at station forecourt
Accessible	Yes - ramp to station building and platform
Other information
Status	Unstaffed
Website	Official website
History
Opened	7 July 1924 ; 99 years ago
Passengers
FY2015	154 daily
Location
Location
	Nijinomatsubara Station Location within Japan

Nijinomatsubara Station ( 虹ノ松原? , Nijinomatsubara-eki ) is a railway station in Karatsu , Saga Prefecture , Japan. It is operated by JR Kyushu and is on the Chikuhi Line . ^[1]^[2] The station is set within the Nijinomatsubara pine forest, which gives it its name.

Lines [ edit ]

The station is served by the Chikuhi Line and is located 37.5 km from the starting point of the line at Meinohama . ^[3] Only local services on the Chikuhi Line stop at this station. ^[4]

Station layout [ edit ]

The station consists of a side platform serving a single track. The station building is a simple wooden shed of traditional Japanese design with a tiled roof. It is unstaffed and serves to only to house a waiting room and an automatic ticket machine. ^[3]^[2]

A view of the station platform and track.
Approach road. The station is set within the Nijinomatsubara pine forest.

Adjacent stations [ edit ]

←	Service
Chikuhi Line
Hamasaki	Local	Higashi-Karatsu
Rapid: Does not stop at this station

History [ edit ]

The private Kitakyushu Railway had opened a line between Fukuyoshi and Hamasaki on 5 December 1923. On 7 July 1924, the line was extended westwards with Nijinomatsubara opening as its new western terminus. Nijinomatsubara became a through-station on 15 June 1925 when the line was extended to Higashi-Karatsu . When the Kitakyushu Railway was nationalized on 1 October 1937, Japanese Government Railways (JGR) took over control of the station. On the same day, the station name was in Japanese characters was changed from 虹の松原? to 虹ノ松原?, a switch of the second character from hiragana to katakana , with no change in reading or transliteration. The line which served the station was designated the Chikuhi Line . With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR), the successor of JGR, on 1 April 1987, control of the station passed to JR Kyushu. ^[5]^[6]

Passenger statistics [ edit ]

In fiscal 2015, there were a total of 56,268 boarding passengers, giving a daily average of 154 passengers. ^[7]

Environs [ edit ]

Nijinomatsubara
Mount Kagami

References [ edit ]

^ "JR Kyushu Route Map" (PDF) . JR Kyushu . Retrieved 3 March 2018 .
^ ^a ^b "虹ノ松原" [Nijinomatsubara]. hacchi-no-he.net . Retrieved 31 March 2018 .
^ ^a ^b Kawashima, Ry?z? (2013). ??: 日本の?道四??九州ライン全線?全??全配線?第5? 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. 10, 78. ISBN 9784062951647 .
^ "虹ノ松原?" [Nijinomatsubara]. JR Kyushu official station website . Retrieved 31 March 2018 .
^ Ishino, Tetsu; et al., eds. (1998). 停車場?遷大事典 ???JR編 [ Station Transition Directory ? JNR/JR ] (in Japanese). Vol. I. Tokyo: JTB Corporation. pp. 224?5. ISBN 4-533-02980-9 .
^ Ishino, Tetsu; et al., eds. (1998). 停車場?遷大事典 ???JR編 [ Station Transition Directory ? JNR/JR ] (in Japanese). Vol. II. Tokyo: JTB Corporation. p. 725. ISBN 4-533-02980-9 .
^ "佐賀?統計年鑑（平成28年版）" [Saga Prefecture Statistics Yearbook 2016 Edition]. Saga Prefectural Government website . Retrieved 23 March 2018 . See table 12-7 at section under Transportation and Communications.

External links [ edit ]

Nijinomatsubara Station (JR Kyushu) (in Japanese)

[stationmap-1] "JR Kyushu Route Map" (PDF) . JR Kyushu . Retrieved 3 March 2018 .

[hacchi-2] "虹ノ松原" [Nijinomatsubara]. hacchi-no-he.net . Retrieved 31 March 2018 .

[kawashima-3] Kawashima, Ry?z? (2013). ??: 日本の?道四??九州ライン全線?全??全配線?第5? 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. 10, 78. ISBN 9784062951647 .

[JR-4] "虹ノ松原?" [Nijinomatsubara]. JR Kyushu official station website . Retrieved 31 March 2018 .

[5] Ishino, Tetsu; et al., eds. (1998). 停車場?遷大事典 ???JR編 [ Station Transition Directory ? JNR/JR ] (in Japanese). Vol. I. Tokyo: JTB Corporation. pp. 224?5. ISBN 4-533-02980-9 .

[teishajo-6] Ishino, Tetsu; et al., eds. (1998). 停車場?遷大事典 ???JR編 [ Station Transition Directory ? JNR/JR ] (in Japanese). Vol. II. Tokyo: JTB Corporation. p. 725. ISBN 4-533-02980-9 .

[prefstats-7] "佐賀?統計年鑑（平成28年版）" [Saga Prefecture Statistics Yearbook 2016 Edition]. Saga Prefectural Government website . Retrieved 23 March 2018 . See table 12-7 at section under Transportation and Communications.

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