Fukuyoshi Station

Fukuyoshi Station (福吉駅, Fukuyoshi-eki) is a railway station in Itoshima, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by JR Kyushu and is on the Chikuhi Line.[1][2]

Fukuyoshi Station 福吉駅
The South entrance of Fukuyoshi Station in 2009
Location	Itoshima, Fukuoka Japan
Coordinates	33°30′06″N 130°04′46″E
Operated by	JR Kyushu
Line(s)	■ Chikuhi Line
Distance	26.1 km from Meinohama
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2 + 1 siding
Construction
Structure type	At grade
Disabled access	No - platforms accessed from hashigami station with steps
Other information
Status	Unstaffed
Website	Official website
History
Opened	5 December 1923 (1923-12-05)
Traffic
Passengers (FY2016)	403 daily
Rank	268th (among JR Kyushu stations)
Location
Fukuyoshi Station Location within Japan

Lines

The station is served by the Chikuhi Line and is located 26.1 km from the starting point of the line at Meinohama.[3] Only local services on the Chikuhi Line stop at this station.[4]

Station layout

The station consists of an island platforms serving two tracks with a siding. The station building is a hashigami structure which spans the tracks and has separate entrances north and south of the tracks. The waiting room is positioned on the bridge above the platform. The ticket window, also on the bridge, is unstaffed. From the bridge, a ticket gate equipped with a Sugoca card reader stands at the top of a flight of steps which leads down to the platform.[3][2][5][6]

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  A view of the platform and tracks, looking east, in the direction of Meinohama. Note the siding.
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  The station platform looking west. Note the stairwell leading to the station building above the tracks and also the station entrances (stairwells) on both sides.

Adjacent stations

←		Service		→
Chikuhi Line
Dainyū		Local	Shikaka
Passed		Rapid	Passed

History

The station was opened on 5 December 1923 as the eastern terminus of a line which the private Kitakyushu Railway had built to Hamasaki. Fukuyoshi became a through-station on 1 April 1924 when the track was extended east to Maebaru (today Chikuzen-Maebaru). When the Kitakyushu Railway was nationalized on 1 October 1937, Japanese Government Railways (JGR) took over control of the station and designated the line which served it as 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.[7][8]

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2016, the station was used by an average of 403 passengers daily (boarding passengers only), and it ranked 268th among the busiest stations of JR Kyushu.[9]

Environs

• National Route 202

See also

• List of railway stations in Japan

References

1. "JR Kyushu Route Map" (PDF). JR Kyushu. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
2. "福吉" [Fukuyoshi]. hacchi-no-he.net. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
3. Kawashima, Ryōzō (2013). 図説: 日本の鉄道 四国・九州ライン 全線・全駅・全配線・第5巻 長崎 佐賀 エリア [Japan Railways Illustrated. Shikoku and Kyushu. All lines, all stations, all track layouts. Volume 5 Nagasaki Saga area] (in Japanese). Kodansha. pp. 10, 77. ISBN 9784062951647.
4. "福吉" [Fukuyoshi]. JR Kyushu official station website. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
5. "福吉駅に訪問" [Visit to Fukuyoshi Station]. Dridorichi's railroad blog. 14 August 2016. Retrieved 25 March 2018. Provides photographic coverage of station facilities.
6. "JR 福吉駅" [JR Fukuyoshi Station]. Itoshima Blue. January 2018. Retrieved 25 March 2018. Website of Itoshima City attractions with detailed photographic coverage of station facilities.
7. Ishino, Tetsu; et al., eds. (1998). 停車場変遷大事典 国鉄・JR編 [Station Transition Directory - JNR/JR] (in Japanese). I. Tokyo: JTB Corporation. pp. 224–5. ISBN 4533029809.
8. Ishino, Tetsu; et al., eds. (1998). 停車場変遷大事典 国鉄・JR編 [Station Transition Directory - JNR/JR] (in Japanese). II. Tokyo: JTB Corporation. p. 725. ISBN 4533029809.
9. "駅別乗車人員上位300駅（平成28年度）" [Passengers embarking by station - Top 300 stations (Fiscal 2016)] (PDF). JR Kyushu. 31 July 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 August 2017. Retrieved 25 February 2018.

External links

• Fukuyoshi Station (JR Kyushu)(in Japanese)