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Mojikō Station
is a railway station on the Kagoshima Main Line in Moji-ku, Kitakyushu, Japan, operated by the Kyushu Railway Company (JR Kyushu). Lines Mojikō Station is served by the Kagoshima Main Line. The station is located close to Kyushu Railway History Museum Station on the Mojikō Retro Scenic Line operated by Heichiku. Station layout The Neo-Renaissance style building was built in 1914. The station has a "Midori no Madoguchi" staffed ticket counter. History The station opened on 1 April 1891. With the privatization of Japanese National Railways The , abbreviated JNR or , was the business entity that operated Japan's national railway network from 1949 to 1987. Network Railways As of June 1, 1949, the date of establishment of JNR, it operated of narrow gauge () railways in all 46 pre ... (JNR) on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR Kyushu. From 29 September 2012, the 1914-vintage station building was temporarily closed for major renovations. It is s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Moji-ku, Kitakyūshū
is a Japanese Wards of Japan, ward of the city of Kitakyushu in Fukuoka Prefecture. It is the former city of Moji which was one of five merged to create Kitakyūshū in 1963. It faces the city of Shimonoseki across the Kanmon Straits between Honshū and Kyūshū. The ward's area is 73.37 km2. It had a population of 114,754 as of 2000. History Moji was first made into a port by Suematsu Kenchō with the financial backing of Shibusawa Eiichi in 1889. It was chiefly used for the transportation of coal, though there is a traditional song about the sale of bananas imported into Moji from Southeast Asia which survives to this day (''Banana no tataki-uri''). An imperial decree in July 1899 established Moji as an open port for trading with the United States and the United Kingdom.US Department of State. (1906)''A digest of international law as embodied in diplomatic discussions, treaties and other international agreements'' (John Bassett Moore, ed.), Vol. 5, p. 759 In 1905, Moji ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
