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Hakata Station (博多駅, Hakata-eki) is a major railway station in Hakata-ku, Fukuoka, Japan. It is the largest and busiest railway terminal in Kyushu, and is a gateway to other cities in Kyushu for travelers coming from Honshu by rail travel. The San'yō Shinkansen from Osaka ends at this station. The station was rebuilt in 2011.
It includes public and private rail and highway networks; airports for international, domestic, and general aviation; buses; motorcycle delivery services, walking, bicycling, and commercial shipping. The foci of the public transport system are Hakata Station, Tenjin Station, and Kokura Station, in Fukuoka and Kitakyushu cities respectively ...
The line was originally opened in March 1975 to transport San'yō Shinkansen trains from the Hakata terminal to Hakata Depot in Kasuga. At that time, Kasuga was a rural region and did not merit a railway station of its own. By the late 1980s, however, the area had become a sprawling suburb of Fukuoka.
The Kyushu Railway Company [2], also referred to as JR Kyushu (JR九州, Jeiāru Kyūshū), is one of the seven constituent companies of Japan Railways Group (JR Group). It operates intercity rail services within Kyushu, Japan and the JR Kyushu Jet Ferry Beetle hydrofoil service across the Tsushima Strait between Fukuoka and Busan, South Korea.
Visitors traveling to Fukuoka by Shinkansen (bullet train) disembark at JR Hakata Station. They can then transfer to the Fukuoka City Subway system by changing to Hakata Subway station, located under JR Hakata station. [2] Fukuoka Airport is also linked to the Fukuoka City Subway. Downtown Fukuoka City can be reached in about 10 minutes by ...
The station is served by the Hakataminami Line from Hakata Station, and forms the only station on this 8.5 km (5.3 mi) line. Hakataminami Line services are classed as " Limited express ", although many are actually extensions of Sanyō Shinkansen Hikari or Kodama services.
The station consists of one side platform and two island platforms serving five tracks, with a nine-story steel-framed reinforced concrete station building on the east side containing shops on the 1st to 2nd floors and rental apartments on the 3rd to 9th floors, and the ticket gates on the 2nd floor. The station has a Midori no Madoguchi ...
Hakata-ku is a ward of Fukuoka City located on its eastern edge. It is 31.47 km 2 with a population of 206,629 (as of January 1, 2009). Much of the ward consists of low-lying plains beside the Mikasa River (御笠川, Mikasagawa).