Haramizu Station
railway station in Kikuyo, Kikuchi district, Kumamoto prefecture, Japan
Haramizu Station (原水駅, Haramizu-eki) is a passenger railway station located in the town of Kikuyō, Kumamoto, Japan. It Is operated by JR Kyushu.
Lines
The station is served by the Hōhi Main Line and is located 18.9 km from the starting point of the line at Kumamoto.
Layout
The station, which is unstaffed, consists of two side platforms serving two tracks at grade. The station building is a simple steel frame structure which serves only to house a waiting room and an automatic ticket vending machine. Access to the opposite side platform is by means of a level crossing.
Platforms
History
Japanese Government Railways (JGR) opened Haramizu as an additional station on the existing track of the then Miyagi Light Rail Line (宮地軽便線) (later the Miyagi Line) from Kumamoto eastwards to Higo-Ōzu. By 1928, the track had been extended eastward and had linked up with the Inukai Line (犬飼線) which had been built westward from Ōita. On 2 December 1928, the entire track from Kumamoto to Ōita was designated as the Hōhi Main Line. With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR), the successor of JGR, on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR Kyushu.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Haramizu Station” is railway station in Kikuyo, Kikuchi district, Kumamoto prefecture, Japan. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Haramizu, Station and railway, not as a finished interpretation.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5654093. Authority coordinates are 32.871, 130.829. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1928 and 1987.
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This entry incorporates text from “Haramizu Station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.