Taku Station

Taku Station (多久駅, Taku-eki) is a railway station on the Karatsu Line operated by JR Kyushu located in Taku, Saga Prefecture, Japan.[1][2]

Taku Station

多久駅
The south entrance of Taku Station in 2009
LocationJapan
Coordinates33°17′17″N 130°05′46″E
Operated by JR Kyushu
Line(s)■ Karatsu Line
Distance15.2 km from Kubota
Platforms1 island platform
Tracks2
Construction
Structure typeAt grade
Other information
StatusStaffed ticket window (outsourced)
WebsiteOfficial website
History
Opened25 December 1899 (1899-12-25)
Previous namesAzamibaru (until 1 April 1934)
Traffic
Passengers (2016)360 daily
Rank282nd (among JR Kyushu stations)
Location
Taku Station
Location within Japan

Lines

The station is served by the Karatsu Line and is located 15.2 km from the starting point of the line at Kubota.[3]

Station layout

The station consists of an island platform serving two tracks. The station building is a hashigami structure where the passenger facilities are placed on a bridge which spans the tracks. Besides giving access to the island platform, the second level of the bridge houses a waiting area and a ticket window. The bridge is also used as a free access for pedestrians to cross from the north side to the south side of the station. Next to the station are community facilities and shops.[2][3]

Management of the station has been outsourced to the JR Kyushu Tetsudou Eigyou Co., a wholly owned subsidiary of JR Kyushu specialising in station services. It staffs the ticket window which is equipped with a POS machine but does not have a Midori no Madoguchi facility.[4][5]

  • View of the platform in 2008. The south entrance is to the left. The area around the north entrance has not been built up yet.
  • The north entrance in 2016 now built up. To the left are community facilities and shops which are not part of the station.

Adjacent stations
←Service→
Karatsu Line
Naka-Taku Local Kyūragi

History

The Karatsu Kogyo Railway had opened a track from Miyoken (now Nishi-Karatsu) which, by 13 June 1899, had reached Kyūragi. The track was extended further east, with Taku (at the time named Azamibaru (莇原) opening as the new eastern terminus on 25 December 1899. On 23 February 1902, the company, now renamed the Karatsu Railway, merged with the Kyushu Railway which undertook the next phase of expansion. Azamibaru became a through-station on 14 December 1903 when the track was extended to Kubota. When the Kyushu Railway was nationalized on 1 July 1907, Japanese Government Railways (JGR) took over control of the station. On 12 October 1909, the line which served the station was designated the Karatsu Line. On 1 April 1934, the station was renamed Taku. With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR), the successor of JGR, on 1 April 1987, control of the station passed to JR Kyushu.[6][7]

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2016, the station was used by an average of 360 passengers daily (boarding passengers only), and it ranked 282nd among the busiest stations of JR Kyushu.[8]

Surrounding area
  • National Route 203
  • Kita-Taku Post Office
  • Midorigaoka Elementary School
  • Taku Seibyō
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References
  1. "JR Kyushu Route Map" (PDF). JR Kyushu. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
  2. "多久" [Taku]. hacchi-no-he.net. Retrieved 12 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. 18, 81. ISBN 9784062951647.
  4. "福岡支店内各駅" [Stations within the Fukuoka Branch]. JRTE website. Retrieved 12 March 2018.
  5. "多久駅" [Taku Station]. jr-mars.dyndns.org. Retrieved 12 March 2018. See images of tickets sold.
  6. 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. 223–4. ISBN 4533029809.
  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). II. Tokyo: JTB Corporation. p. 719. ISBN 4533029809.
  8. "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 3 March 2018.


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