Minami-Kurume Station
# Minami-Kurume Station

Minami-Kurume Station (南久留米駅, Minami-Kurume-eki) is railway station on the Kyūdai Main Line operated by JR Kyushu in Kurume, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. The station name refers to the nearby Kurume High School.

## Lines

The station is served by the Kyudai Main Line and is located 4.9 km from the starting point of the line at Kurume. Only local trains on the line stop at the station.

## Layout

The station consists of an island platform serving two tracks on a low embankment. The station building is an old wooden building in traditional Japanese style with a staffed ticket window. An underpass leads under the embankment and up to the island platform.

Management of the station has been outsourced to the JR Kyushu Tetsudou Eigyou Co., a wholly owned subsidiary of JR Kyushu specialising in station services. It staffs the ticket counter which is equipped with a POS machine but does not have a Midori no Madoguchi facility.

* A view of the platform and tracks.

## Adjacent stations

| ← | | Service | | → |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Kyudai Main Line |||||
| Kurume-Kōkōmae | Kurume-Kōkōmae | Local | Kurume-Daigakumae | Kurume-Daigakumae |

## History

Japanese Government Railways (JGR) opened a track from Kurume to Chikugo-Yoshii on 24 December 1928 during the first phase of the construction of the Kyudai Main Line. Minami-Kurume was opened on the same day as one of several intermediate stations on the track. With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR), the successor of JGR, on 1 April 1987, JR Kyushu took over control of the station.

## Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2016, the station was used by an average of 424 passengers daily (boarding passengers only), and it ranked 259th among the busiest stations of JR Kyushu.

