Kodomonokuni Station (子供の国駅, Kodomonokuni-eki) is a train station in Miyazaki City, Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by of JR Kyushu and is on the Nichinan Line.[1][2]
Kodomokuni Station 子供の国駅 | |
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Kodomonokuni Station in 2014 | |
General information | |
Location | Japan |
Coordinates | 31°48′26″N 131°27′26″E |
Operated by | ![]() |
Line(s) | ■ Nichinan Line |
Distance | 11.4 km from Minami-Miyazaki |
Platforms | 1 side platform |
Tracks | 1 |
Construction | |
Structure type | At grade |
Disabled access | Yes - ramp to station building |
Other information | |
Status | Unstaffed |
Website | Official website |
History | |
Opened | 22 October 1923 (1923-10-22) |
Passengers | |
FY2016 | 39 daily |
Location | |
![]() ![]() Kodomokuni Station Location within Japan |
The station is served by the Nichinan Line and is located 11.4 km from the starting point of the line at Minami-Miyazaki.[3]
The station, which is unstaffed, consists of a side platform serving a single track at grade. The station building, a modern concrete structure, is unstaffed and serves only as a waiting room.[2][3]
← | Service | → | ||
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Nichinan Line | ||||
Sosanji | Local | Aoshima |
The private Miyazaki Light Railway (宮崎軽便鉄道) (later renamed the Miyazaki Railway) opened the station on 22 October 1923 with the name Aoshima Onsen (青島温泉) as an additional station on a line which it had laid in 1913 between Minami-Miyazaki and Uchiumi (now closed). On 21 March 1939, the station was renamed Kodomonokuni. The station closed when the Miyazaki Railway ceased operations on 1 July 1962. Subsequently, Japanese National Railways (JNR) extended its then Shibushi Line north from Kitagō towards Minami-Miyazaki on the same route and reopened Kodomonokuni as an intermediate station on 8 May 1963. The route was renamed the Nichinan Line on the same day. With the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR Kyushu.[4][5][6]
In fiscal 2016, the station was used by an average of 39 passengers (boarding only) per day.[7]
Stations of the Nichinan Line | |
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