| Higashi-Taku Station | |
| Native Name: | 東多久駅 |
| Native Name Lang: | ja |
| Symbol Location: | jp |
| Symbol: | jrk |
| Style: | JR Kyushu |
| Address: | Higashitakumachi Oaza Befu, Taku-shi, Saga-ken 846-0012 |
| Country: | Japan |
| Coordinates: | 33.2853°N 130.1435°W |
| Operator: | JR Kyushu |
| Line: | Karatsu Line |
| Distance: | 10.6 km from |
| Platforms: | 2 side platforms |
| Tracks: | 2 + 1 siding |
| Structure: | At grade |
| Accessible: | No - platforms linked by footbridge |
| Status: | Unstaffed |
| Former: | Befu (until 1 June 1911) |
| Passengers: | 156 daily |
| Pass Year: | FY2016 |
| Map Type: | Japan Saga Prefecture#Japan |
| Map Dot Label: | Higashi-Taku Station |
| Mapframe: | yes |
| Mapframe-Zoom: | 17 |
is a passenger railway station on the Karatsu Line operated by JR Kyushu located in the city of Taku, Saga Prefecture, Japan.[1]
The station is served by the Karatsu Line and is located 10.6 km from the starting point of the line at .
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]
The Karatsu Kogyo Railway had opened a track from Miyoken (now) which, by 25 December 1899, had reached Azamibaru (now). 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) 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.
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.[4]