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Minami Fukuoka Station

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Operated by
  
Kyushu Railway Company

Passengers (2007)
  
8,198 daily

Opened
  
1890

Line(s)
  
Kagoshima Main Line

Address
  
Japan

Minami-Fukuoka Station

Location
  
Hakata, Fukuoka, Fukuoka Japan

Previous names
  
Zasshonokuma (until 1966)

Similar
  
Zasshonokuma Station, Takeshita Station, Kasugabaru Station, Yoshizuka Station, Ijiri Station

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Minami-Fukuoka Station (南福岡駅) is a train station operated by Kyushu Railway Company on the Kagoshima Main Line in Hakata-ku, Fukuoka in Japan.

Contents

4220m kagoshima main line futsukaichi


Vicinity

  • Lawson Convenience Store
  • Motomachi Shopping Street
  • JR Kyūshū train yard
  • Zasshonokuma : Tenjin Ōmuta Line
  • NTT Building
  • Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, Camp Fukuoka (4th Division Headquarter)
  • Nakoku no okarekishi Park
  • Nishitetsu Bus station

    • History

    The station was originally named Zasshonokuma Station (雑餉隈駅). However, many users complained because a nearby station on the Tenjin Ōmuta Line bore the same name.

  • January 20, 1890: Station opens as "Zasshonokuma station".
  • October 15, 1919: Double-track line between Hakata and Futsukaichi opens.
  • October 14, 1960: Minami-Fukuoka train yard opens.
  • June 1, 1961: Line is electrified between Kurume and Mojikō.
  • November 1, 1966: Station renamed Minami-Fukuoka Station.
  • April 1, 1987: Privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR). Line resumed under Kyushu Railway Company.
  • 1994: Station burned down in arson attack.
  • July 1999: Station rebuilt with automatic ticket gates.
  • 2006: Elevators added to platforms.

    • References

    Minami-Fukuoka Station Wikipedia
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