Higashi-Kokura Station

is a freight railway station on the Kagoshima Main Line, operated by Japan Freight Railway Company in Kokura Kita-ku, Kitakyūshū, Japan. Presently it handles no trains.

History

The station originally served both passenger and freight trains. It opened on April 1, 1915 as the terminal of the Kokura Railway, the predecessor of the Hitahikosan Line. When the Japanese Government Railways purchased the Kokura Railway on May 1, 1943, the station was reestablished on the Kagoshima Main Line as a junction of the two lines, but the station served no passenger trains on the Kagoshima Main Line. The passenger service at the station was ceased on November 19, 1956 as the section between Higashi-Kokura and on the Hitahikosan Line ceased to operate passenger trains.

Although the freight-only section of the Hitahikosan Line was closed on October 1, 1962, the station continued the freight operation on the Kagoshima Main Line until March 23, 2002 when the new Kitakyūshū Freight Terminal Station opened. The station has not been officially closed.

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