Kami-Honami Station | |
Native Name: | 上穂波駅 |
Native Name Lang: | ja |
Symbol Location: | jp |
Symbol: | jrk |
Style: | JR Kyushu |
Address: | Ae, Iizuka-shi, Fukuoka-ken 820-0704 |
Country: | Japan |
Coordinates: | 33.567°N 130.6452°W |
Operator: | JR Kyushu |
Line: | Chikuhō Main Line |
Distance: | 48.1 km from |
Platforms: | 1 side platform |
Tracks: | 1 |
Structure: | At grade |
Status: | Unstaffed |
Passengers: | 58 |
Pass Year: | FY2016 |
Map Type: | Japan Fukuoka Prefecture#Japan |
Map Dot Label: | Kami-Honami Station |
Mapframe: | yes |
Mapframe-Zoom: | 17 |
is a passenger railway station located in the city of Iizuka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by JR Kyushu in[1]
The station is served by the Chikuhō Main Line and is located 48.1 km from the starting point of the line at .
The station consists of a side platform serving a single track. Across the track can be seen another, disused side platform as well as the track bed of a second track which has since been removed. The station shares a large two-storey building with the local chamber of commerce and industry. The station part of the building is unstaffed and only houses a waiting room and automatic ticket vending machines. Access to the platform from the station building is by means of a short flight of steps.[2] [3]
Japanese Government Railways (JGR) opened Kami-Honami on 15 July 1928 as an intermediate station when it extended the track of the then Nagao Line from Nagao (now to a new southern terminus at . On 7 December 1929, Kami-Honami became part of the Chikuho Main Line when the Nagao Line was merged with the former. With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR), the successor of JGR, on 1 April 1987, control of the station passed to JR Kyushu.
Station numbering was introduced on 28 September 2018 with Kami-Honami being assigned station number JG02.[4]