Kami Sendai Station | |
Native Name Lang: | ja |
Address: | 28 Goryōshitachō, Satsumasendai-shi, Kagoshima-ken 895-0061 |
Country: | Japan |
Operator: | Hisatsu Orange Railway Co., Ltd. |
Line: | Hisatsu Orange Railway Line |
Platforms: | 2 side platforms |
Tracks: | 2 |
Structure: | At-grade |
Code: | OR27 |
Original: | Japanese Government Railways |
Passengers: | 219 |
Pass Year: | FY2019 |
Map Type: | Japan Kagoshima Prefecture#Japan |
Map Dot Label: | Kami Sendai Station |
Mapframe: | yes |
Mapframe-Zoom: | 17 |
is a passenger railway station located in the city of Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by third-sector railway company Hisatsu Orange Railway.[1] [2]
The station is served by the Hisatsu Orange Railway Line that follows the former coastal route of the JR Kyushu Kagoshima Main Line connecting Yatsushiro and Sendai. It is located 113.7 km from the starting point of the line at .[1]
The station is an above-ground station with two side platforms and two tracks. It has a reinforced concrete station building built in 1952, and when it was a staffed station, it had a stationmaster's office, a railway parcel window, and a ticket counter, but is now unattended.
Kami Sendai Station was opened on 1 July 1922 as a station on the Japanese Government Railways Sendai Line, which was incorporated into the Kagoshima Main Line on 17 October 1927. With the privatization of the Japan National Railways on 1 April 1987, the station was transferred to JR Kyushu. On 13 March 2004, with the opening of the Kyushu Shinkansen, the station was transferred to the Hisatsu Orange Railway.
The average daily passenger traffic in fiscal 2019 was 219 people. [3]