Kodomonokuni Station (Miyazaki)


Kodomonokuni Station is a train station in Miyazaki City, Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by of JR Kyushu and is on the Nichinan Line.

Lines

The station is served by the Nichinan Line and is located 11.4 km from the starting point of the line at.

Layout

The station, which is unstaffed, consists of a side platform serving a single track at grade. The station building, a modern concrete structure, is unstaffed and serves only as a waiting room.

Adjacent stations

History

The private Miyazaki Light Railway opened the station on 22 October 1923 with the name Aoshima Onsen as an additional station on a line which it had laid in 1913 between and Uchiumi. On 21 March 1939, the station was renamed Kodomonokuni. The station closed when the Miyazaki Railway ceased operations on 1 July 1962. Subsequently, Japanese National Railways extended its then Shibushi Line north from towards Minami-Miyazaki on the same route and reopened Kodomonokuni as an intermediate station on 8 May 1963. The route was renamed the Nichinan Line on the same day. With the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR Kyushu.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2016, the station was used by an average of 39 passengers per day.

Surrounding area