Nata Station
# Nata Station

Nata Station (奈多駅, Nata-eki) is a railway station on the Kashii Line operated by JR Kyushu in Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan.

## Lines

The station is served by the Kashii Line and is located 7.4 km from the starting point of the line at Saitozaki.

## Station layout

The station, which is unstaffed, consists of a side platform serving a single track. A station building, of timber construction in the European style, houses a waiting area and automatic ticket vending machines. After the ticket gates, a ramp leads to the platform.

* A view of the station platform and track.

## Adjacent stations

| ← | | Service | | → |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Kashii Line |||||
| JD 03 Gannosu | JD 03 Gannosu | Local | JD 05 Wajiro | JD 05 Wajiro |

## History

Japanese National Railways (JNR) opened the station on 1 August 1960 as an additional station on the existing track of the Kashii Line. The name used was one which had once belonged to the previous station on the line which had been renamed to Gannosu in 1944. With the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987, JR Kyushu took over control of the station.

On 14 March 2015, the station, along with others on the line, became a remotely managed "Smart Support Station". Under this scheme, although the station became unstaffed, passengers using the automatic ticket vending machines or ticket gates could receive assistance via intercom from staff at a central support centre.

## Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2016, the station was used by an average of 1,165 passengers daily (boarding passengers only), and it ranked 148th among the busiest stations of JR Kyushu.

