Kanaishihara Station | |
Native Name: | 金石原駅 |
Native Name Lang: | ja |
Symbol Location: | jp |
Symbol: | jrk |
Style: | JR Kyushu |
Address: | Yamagata Matsuuracho, Imari-shi, Saga-ken 849-5263 |
Country: | Japan |
Coordinates: | 33.265°N 129.9344°W |
Operator: | JR Kyushu |
Line: | Chikuhi Line |
Distance: | 19.7 km from |
Platforms: | 1 side platform |
Tracks: | 1 |
Structure: | At grade |
Status: | Unstaffed |
Passengers: | 14 daily |
Pass Year: | FY2015 |
Map Type: | Japan Saga Prefecture#Japan |
Map Dot Label: | Kanaishihara Station |
Mapframe: | yes |
Mapframe-Zoom: | 17 |
is a passenger railway station located in the city of Imari, Saga Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by JR Kyushu.[1]
The station is served by the western section of the Chikuhi Line and is 19.7 km from the starting point of this section at .
The station, which is unstaffed, consists of a side platform serving a single track. There is no station building, only a shelter on the platform for waiting passengers.[2] [3] [4]
The private Kitakyushu Railway, which had a track between and by 1926 and had expanded southwards to by 1929. In a later phase of expansion, the track was extended west from Yamamoto to, which opened as the western terminus on 1 March 1935. This station was opened on the same day as an intermediate station on the new track. The Kitakyushu Railway was nationalised on 1 October 1937 and Japanese Government Railways (JGR) assumed control of the station and designated the track which served it as part of 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.
In fiscal 2015, there were a total of 4,941 boarding passengers, giving a daily average of 14 passengers.[5]