Sadowara Station
![]() Sadowara Station in 2023 | |||||||||||
General information | |||||||||||
Location | Shimotajima Sadowaracho, Miyazaki-shi, Miyazaki-ken, 880-0211 Japan | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 32°01′21″N 131°28′38″E / 32.02250°N 131.47722°E | ||||||||||
Operated by | |||||||||||
Line(s) | ■ Nippō Main Line | ||||||||||
Distance | 326.7 km from Kokura | ||||||||||
Platforms | 1 side + 1 island platforms | ||||||||||
Tracks | 3 + 1 passing loop and 1 siding | ||||||||||
Construction | |||||||||||
Structure type | At grade | ||||||||||
Accessible | No - island platformed accessed by footbridge | ||||||||||
Other information | |||||||||||
Status | Staffed ticket window (outsourced) | ||||||||||
Website | Official website | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
Opened | 11 September 1920 | ||||||||||
Previous names | Hirose (until 1 July 1965) | ||||||||||
Passengers | |||||||||||
FY2016 | 1,075 daily | ||||||||||
Rank | 155th (among JR Kyushu stations) | ||||||||||
Services | |||||||||||
| |||||||||||
|
Sadowara Station (
Lines
[edit]The station is served by the Nippō Main Line and is located 326.7 km from the starting point of the line at Kokura.[3]
Layout
[edit]The station consists of a side platform and an island platform serving three tracks at grade. Track/platform 1, directly access from the station building, is a dead-end siding that only serves trains heading to/from the direction of Miyazaki to the south. The island platform with tracks 2 and 3 is accessed by a footbridge. A passing loop runs between tracks 1 and 2. The station building is a modern flat-roofed concrete structure which houses a waiting area, a staffed ticket window, an automatic ticket vending machine, and SUGOCA card reader and charge machine. Adjacent to the station building and beside track 1 is a container terminer, formerly served by rail but now part of the Sadowara ORS (off-rail station) which only uses trucks.[2][3][4]
Management of the passenger facilities at 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 booth which is equipped with a POS machine but does not have a Midori no Madoguchi facility.[5][6]
Platforms
[edit]1 | ■ ■ Nippō Main Line | for Miyakonojō and Kagoshima-Chūō |
2 | ■ ■ Nippō Main Line | for Minami-Miyazaki and Miyazaki |
History
[edit]In 1913, the Miyazaki Prefectural Railway (
Passenger statistics
[edit]In fiscal 2016, the station was used by an average of 1,075 passengers daily (boarding passengers only), and it ranked 155th among the busiest stations of JR Kyushu.[10]
Sadowara Off-Rail Station
[edit]The Sadowara Off-Rail Station (abbreviation: Sadowara ORS) is a fright container collection and delivery base that belongs to JR Freight and is located on the north side of the station building. It handles container cargo (12-foot containers only), and truck services, which replace freight trains, operate twice a day between here and Nobeoka Station.
Surrounding area
[edit]- Miyazaki City Hall Sadowara General Branch (former Sadowara Town Hall)
- Miyazaki City Hirose Elementary School
- Miyazaki City Hirose Junior High School
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "JR Kyushu Route Map" (PDF). JR Kyushu. Retrieved 23 February 2018.
- ^ a b "
佐土原 " [Sadowara]. hacchi-no-he.net. Retrieved 20 May 2018. - ^ a b 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 6巻 熊本 大分 エリア [Japan Railways Illustrated. Shikoku and Kyushu. All lines, all stations, all track layouts. Volume 6 Kumamoto Ōita Area] (in Japanese). Kodansha. pp. 55, 86. ISBN 9784062951654. - ^ "
日豊本線 佐土原 駅 国鉄 の薫 り" [Nippō Main Line Sadowara Station]. 14 March 2014. Retrieved 20 May 2018. Blog entry with good photographic coverage of station facilities. - ^ "
鹿児島 支店 内 各駅 " [Stations within the Kagoshima Branch]. JRTE website. Retrieved 20 May 2018. - ^ "
佐土原 駅 " [Sadowara Station]. jr-mars.dyndns.org. Retrieved 20 May 2018. See images of tickets sold. - ^ 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). Vol. I. Tokyo: JTB Corporation. pp. 228–9. ISBN 4-533-02980-9. - ^ 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). Vol. II. Tokyo: JTB Corporation. pp. 758–9. ISBN 4-533-02980-9. - ^ Imao, Keisuke (2009).
日本 鉄道 旅行 地図 帳 12号 九州 沖縄 ―全線 ・全 駅 ・全廃 線 [Japan Rail Travel Atlas No. 12 Kyushu Okinawa - all lines, all stations and disused lines] (in Japanese). Mook. pp. 62–3. ISBN 9784107900302. - ^ "
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.
External links
[edit] Media related to Sadowara Station at Wikimedia Commons
- Sadowara (JR Kyushu)(in Japanese)