Kitayama Rail Pages
Hakata-minami Line


JR West 西日本旅客鉄道 [JR西日本]  Nishi Nippon Ryokaku Tetsudō [JR West]     West Japan Railway Company

Hakata-minami 博多南線 JR railway      1435 mm     25 kV 60 Hz AC
Read more about the line in English Wikipedia: Hakata-Minami Line

Opened1975for depot trafficTracksDouble track
1990for passenger traffic
The line's original purpose was to transport Sanyō Shinkansen trains from Hakata station to the train depot in Kasuga. When the Kasuga area became more densly populated, JR decided to open a station in Hakata-minami (Hakata south). It's Shinkansen equipment in the trains, but it is not considered as a Shinkansen line.
MapsKmStation name Official name Furigana nameConnecting linesCityPrefecture
0.0 Hakata博多はかた Fukuoka Subway: Kūkō >Meinohama >Fukuoka-kūkō (Airport)
Fukuoka Subway: Nanakuma >Hashimoto
JR Kyūshū: Kagoshima hon >"Fukuhoku Yutaka line" Mojikō >Yatsushiro
JR Kyūshū: Kyūshū Shinkansen >Kagoshima-chūō
JR Kyūshū: Sasaguri* >Keisen
JR West: Sanyō Shinkansen >Shin-Ōsaka
Fukuoka-shi Fukuoka
8.5 Hakata-minami博多南はかたみなみ
Kasuga-shi


This page is updated Mar 29, 2023