is a passenger

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located in the city of

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Kagoshima Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyushu and the Ryukyu Islands. Kagoshima Prefecture has a population of 1,527,019 (1 February 2025) and has a geographic area of 9,187 Square kilometre, km2 (3,547 Square m ...

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. It is served by the It is operated by third-sector railway company

Hisatsu Orange Railway is a third-sector railway company which operates Hisatsu Orange Railway Line in Kumamoto and Kagoshima prefectures. The line follows the former part of the JR Kyushu Kagoshima Main Line that connected Yatsushiro and Sendai in Kumamoto and K ...

Lines

The station is served by the Hisatsu Orange Railway Line that follows the former coastal route of the

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Kagoshima Main Line The is a major railway line operated by the Kyushu Railway Company (JR Kyushu) between Mojiko Station, Mojikō in Kitakyushu, and Kagoshima Station in Kagoshima, Kagoshima, Kagoshima City, at the southern end of Kyushu. Until March 13, 2004, it ...

connecting

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and

Sendai is the capital Cities of Japan, city of Miyagi Prefecture and the largest city in the Tōhoku region. , the city had a population of 1,098,335 in 539,698 households, making it the List of cities in Japan, twelfth most populated city in Japan. ...

. It is located 86.2 km from the starting point of the line at .

Station layout

The station is an above-ground station with two

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s. Formerly, the station had one single platform and one island platform. Platform 3 and the siding were removed in 1987. After that, the entire track was removed, and the site was converted into a parking lot. When the station opened, it was a single-story wooden building, but it was burned down after being hit by a direct bomb during the Akune air raid in August 1945. The current station building is the second wooden building completed in 1949, and the front was renovated and further renovated in 2014. There are two sidings at the end behind platform 1, which are remnants of the former freight platform and are now used to store maintenance vehicles.

Platforms

Akune Station4.JPG, Station sign Akune Station3.JPG, View of platforms Akune_Station2.JPG, Station building with ticket machines

Adjacent stations

History

Akune Station was opened on 15 October 1922 as a station on the

Japanese Government Railways The Japanese Government Railways (JGR) was the national rail transport, railway system directly operated by the until 1949. It was a predecessor of Japanese National Railways and the later Japan Railways Group. Name The English name "Japanese ...

Sendai Line, which was incorporated into the Kagoshima Main Line on 17 October 1927. With the privatization of the

Japan 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 ...

on 1 April 1987, the station was transferred to

. On 13 March 2004, with the opening of the

Kyushu Shinkansen The is a Japanese Shinkansen high-speed railway network. It is an extension of the San'yō Shinkansen from Honshu connecting the city of Fukuoka (Hakata Station) in the north of Japan's Kyushu Island to the city of Kagoshima (Kagoshima-Chuo Sta ...

, the station was transferred to the Hisatsu Orange Railway.

Passenger statistics

The average daily passenger traffic in fiscal 2019 was 574 people. National Land Numerical Information (passenger traffic by station data)
- Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, accessed September 6, 2021.

Surrounding area

*Akune City Hall *Akune City Akune Elementary School *Akune Municipal Hospital

References

External links

* * * {{Hisatsu Orange Railway Line Stations of Hisatsu Orange Railway Railway stations in Japan opened in 1922 Akune, Kagoshima