Miyazaki Station | |
Native Name: | 宮崎駅 |
Native Name Lang: | ja |
Symbol Location: | jp |
Symbol: | jrk |
Style: | JR Kyushu |
Address: | 1 Nishiki-chō, Miyazaki-shi, Miyazaki-ken 880-0811 |
Country: | Japan |
Coordinates: | 31.9158°N 131.432°W |
Operator: | JR Kyushu |
Line: | Nippō Main Line |
Distance: | 339.9 km from |
Platforms: | 2 island platforms |
Tracks: | 4 |
Connections: | Bus terminal |
Accessible: | Yes |
Status: | Staffed (Midori no Madoguchi) |
Passengers: | 4,773 daily |
Pass Year: | FY2016 |
Pass Rank: | 44th (among JR Kyushu stations) |
Map Type: | Japan Miyazaki Prefecture#Japan |
Map Dot Label: | Miyazaki Station |
Mapframe: | yes |
Mapframe-Zoom: | 17 |
is a junction passenger railway station located in Miyazaki City, Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by JR Kyushu and is on the Nippō Main Line.[1]
Miyazaki Station is a junction station. It is served by the Nippō Main Line and is located 339.4 km from the starting point of the line at .It is also served by trains of the Nichinan Line and the Miyazaki Kūkō Line which continue past their nominal terminus at and respectively to terminate at this station.
Miyazaki Station has two elevated island platforms and four tracks. Although the central station of the prefectural capital, it was the only station in JR Kyushu that did not have automatic ticket gates, but automatic ticket gates were introduced on November 7, 2015 in conjunction with the introduction of SUGOCA in the Miyazaki area. Previously, there were separate ticket gates at the bottom of the stairs from each platform, but as of March 19, 2020, they have been consolidated into one location. There is no detention track on the premises, and when a train is detained, it is transferred to the detention track at Miyazaki-Jingu Station or entered the Miyazaki Vehicle Center (sometimes it is operated commercially to Minami-Miyazaki Station). The station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office.[2]
On 15 December 1913, the opened a line from Miyazaki northwards to (now closed). The Miyazaki Prefectural Railway was nationalized on 21 September 1917 and Japanese Government Railways (JGR) assumed control of the station, designating it as part of the . By 1920, JGR had extended the track from Hirose northwards to . Thus on 11 September 1920, JGR designated the stretch of track from Takanabe, through this station to Miyazaki as part of the Miyazaki Main Line, which at that time already comprised the track from Miyazaki southwards to . Expanding north of Takanabe in phases, the track eventually reached and the entire stretch from Kokura to Miyakonojō was redesignated as the Nippō Main Line on 15 December 1923. The original station was destroyed on 15 August 1945 during the Miyazaki Air Raid of World War II. With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR), the successor of JGR, on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR Kyushu.[3]
In fiscal 2016, the station was used by an average of 4,773 passengers daily (boarding passengers only), and it ranked 44th among the busiest stations of JR Kyushu.[4]