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Kawaraguchi Mihagino Station

railway station in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka prefecture, Japan

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ6379680 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kawaraguchi Mihagino Station (香春口三萩野駅, Kawaraguchi Mihagino-eki) is a Kitakyushu monorail station in Kokura Kita ward, Kitakyushu, Japan.

History

The station opened on 9 January 1985, coinciding with the opening of the Kitakyushu Monorail.

Station layout

The elevated station has two side platforms with two tracks.

Editorial summary

“Kawaraguchi Mihagino Station” enters the record as railway station in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka prefecture, Japan. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Kawaraguchi, Mihagino and Station can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1985—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1985. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Kawaraguchi, Mihagino and Station.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Kawaraguchi Mihagino Station” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Kawaraguchi, Mihagino and Station provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

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 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6379680. Authority coordinates are 33.873, 130.880. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1985.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Kawaraguchi Mihagino Station”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Kawaraguchi Mihagino Station primary sources, Kawaraguchi Mihagino Station archive and Kawaraguchi research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Kawaraguchi Mihagino Station”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Kawaraguchi Mihagino 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.