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Location | Hasamamachi Mukainoharu, Yufu-shi, Ōita-ken 879-5502 Japan | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 33°11′48″N 131°30′50″E / 33.19667°N 131.51389°E | ||||||||||
Operated by | JR Kyushu | ||||||||||
Line(s) | ■ Kyūdai Main Line | ||||||||||
Distance | 127.7 km from Kurume | ||||||||||
Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||
Tracks | 2 + 1 siding | ||||||||||
Construction | |||||||||||
Accessible | No - platforms linked by footbridge | ||||||||||
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Status | Staffed ticket window (outsourced) | ||||||||||
Website | Official website | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
Opened | 30 October 1915 | ||||||||||
Previous names | Mukainohara (until 1 December 1922) | ||||||||||
Passengers | |||||||||||
FY2016 | 609 daily | ||||||||||
Rank | 221st (among JR Kyushu stations) | ||||||||||
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Mukainoharu Station (向之原駅, Mukainoharu-eki) is a passenger railway station located in Hasama neighborhood of the city of Yufu, Ōita Prefecture, Japan, operated by JR Kyushu.[1][2]
Mukainoharu Station is served by the Kyudai Main Line and is located 127.7 km from the starting point of the line at Kurume.[3]
The station has two opposed side platforms serving two tracks with a siding. The platforms are connected by a footbridge. The station building is a modern steel frame structure which houses a waiting area, a staffed ticket window, an automatic ticket vending machine, a SUGOCA card charge machine and a SUGOCA card reader.[3][2]
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 counter which is equipped with a POS machine but does not have a Midori no Madoguchi facility.[4][5]
1 | ■ ■ Kyūdai Main Line | for Yufuin, Hita and Kurume |
2 | ■ ■ Kyūdai Main Line | for Kaku and Ōita |
The station opened on 30 October 1915 as a station on the Daito Railway (大湯鉄道) with the name originally read as "Mukainohara".[6] The Daito Railway was nationalized and absorbed into the Japanese Government Railways on 1 December 1922, and the reading of the station name was changed to "Mukainoharu" from this date, although the Japanese characters for the name remained unchanged.[6] With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR Kyushu.[6]
In fiscal 2016, the station was used by an average of 609 passengers daily (boarding passengers only), and it ranked 221st among the busiest stations of JR Kyushu.[7]