is a passenger railway station on the Chikuhi Line of Kyushu Railway Company (JR Kyushu), located in the city of Karatsu, Saga Prefecture, Japan.
Lines The station is served by the western section of the Chikuhi Line and is 5.1 km from the starting point of this section at .
Station layout The station, which is unstaffed, consists of a side platform serving a single track at grade. There is no station building but a shelter is provided on the platform. In addition, a waiting room named "Sakura-kan" (meaning Cherry Blossom Room) has been set up near the station entrance. A bike shed is provided nearby.
Adjacent stations
History 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 under the name . The Kitakyushi Railway was nationalised on 1 October 1937 and Japanese Government Railways (JGR) assumed control of the station, renamed it Hizen-Kubo 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.
Passenger statistics In fiscal 2015, there were a total of 5,125 boarding passengers, giving a daily average of 14 passengers. See table 12-7 at section under Transportation and Communications.
Surrounding area Japan National Route 203
See also List of railway stations in Japan
References
External links
Hizen-Kubo Station (JR Kyushu)