![]() The station building in April 2020 | |||||||||||
General information | |||||||||||
Location | 2 Chome Aoshimanishi, Miyazaki-shi, Miyazaki-ken889-2163 Japan | ||||||||||
Operated by | ![]() | ||||||||||
Line(s) | ■ Nichinan Line | ||||||||||
Distance | 12.7 km from Minami-Miyazaki | ||||||||||
Platforms | 1 side + 1 island platforms | ||||||||||
Tracks | 3 | ||||||||||
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Structure type | At grade | ||||||||||
Other information | |||||||||||
Status | Unstaffed | ||||||||||
Website | Official website | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
Opened | 31 October 1913 | ||||||||||
Passengers | |||||||||||
FY2016 | 62 daily | ||||||||||
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Aoshima Station (青島駅, Aoshima-eki) is a passenger railway station located in the city of Miyazaki City, Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by JR Kyushu and is on the Nichinan Line.[1][2]
Aoshima Station is served by the 88.9 km Nichinan Line between Minami-Miyazaki and Shibushi, and is located 12.7 km from the official starting point of the line at Minami-Miyazaki.[3][4]
The station is unstaffed and consists of one side platform and one island platform serving three tracks. The platforms are connected by a level crossing for passengers to cross the tracks.[3][2]
1 | ■ ■ Nichinan Line | for Aburatsu and Shibushi |
2, 3 | ■ ■ Nichinan Line | for Miyazaki and Minami-Miyazaki |
The private Miyazaki Light Railway (宮崎軽便鉄道) (later renamed the Miyazaki Railway) opened the station on 31 October 1913 as an intermediate station on a line it had laid between Minami-Miyazaki and Uchiumi (now closed). The station closed when the Miyazaki Railway ceased operations on 1 July 1962. Subsequently, Japanese National Railways (JNR) extended its then Shibushi Line north from Kitagō towards Minami-Miyazaki on the same route and reopened Aoshima as an intermediate station on 8 May 1963. With the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR Kyushu.[4][5]
The station became unstaffed from 1 December 1992.[6]
In fiscal 2006, Aoshima Station was used by an average of 58 passengers daily (boarding passengers only),.[6] In fiscal 2016, the daily average for boarding passengers had grown slightly to 62.[7]