Karatsu Station

Karatsu Station is located in Shinjuku Town, Karatsu City, Saga Prefecture, and is a station on the Kyushu Train.

General description
All trains stop at the Karatsu City Representative Station, which is the central city of the Northern Saga Prefecture. The station's affiliation line is Karatsu Line and, to make this station the end point of Chikuhi line 2 routes (east section). In addition to this, all trains on the Chikuhi line (west section) that start from Yamamoto station on the Karatsu line meet this station. Trains on the Chikuhi line partially run to Nishi Karatsu station, the end of the Karatsu line. This station is numbered JK20 as the station number on the Chikuhi line.

This station was only an intermediate station on the Karatsu line at the beginning of the operation, and was a representative station in the city of Karatsu, including the Higashi Karatsu station, which was the main station on the Chikuhi line, and the Yamamoto station, which it was the only connecting station on the Karatsu and Chikuhi lines. It was a situation in which three stations were separated, but with the opening of the new line of the Chikuhi line and the partial closure in 1983, the Chikuhi line entered this station and the station that connects the Karatsu and Chikuhi lines with the stations Meinohama and Hakata. However, since moving from Yamamoto station to this station, this station has become a representative station of Karatsu city, both in name and in reality.

History

 * 1898 (Meiji 1931) December 1 - Karatsu Kogyo Railway with opening opening.
 * 1900 (Meiji 33) April 18: Become Karatsu Railway Station due to the name change of the Karatsu Kogyo Railway Company.
 * 1902 (Meiji 35) February 23: Become a station on the Kyushu railway with the merger of the Karatsu railway.
 * 1907 (1907) July 1 - Railway Nationalization Law nationalized by, becomes a station on the Karatsu line.
 * 1974 (Showa 49) October 1. Cargo handling is eliminated and it becomes a passenger station.
 * 1982 (Showa 57) October 9 - Elevated with the completion of the continuous slope separation project on the JNR Karatsu line.
 * 1983 (Showa 58) March 22 - Opening of the new line of the Chikuhi line / Opening of the elevated department of the Chikuhi line due to partial closure. The section of the Chikuhi line has been changed from the station-Higashi station Karatsu Hakata (first generation) -Yamamoto Station- Imari station to the Imari station-Yamamoto station-Karatsu station-Meinohama station. It becomes an overlapping section. The green window business started (moved from Higashi Karatsu station).
 * December 1983 December 3 The Plaza de Salida Sur is completed. A cost of 84 million yen was invested in urban land as a land readjustment project at Karatsu Station.
 * 1984 April 21: The northern entrance plaza is completed. The city and the national railway have been maintained for 110 million yen.
 * 1987 April 1 - Succession to the Kyushu Railway Company due to the privatization of JNR. To coincide with this, the station-Yamamoto-Chikuhi line is divided into two east and west because it was returned to a single section of the Karatsu line between this station, this station is the end of the east section.
 * 2008 September 26 - Rotary improvement of work at the end of the southern entrance plaza. Start of operation of the south parking lot of the station.
 * 2010 February 13: automatic start of service at the entrance door.
 * 2010 March 13: IC SUGOCA card starts to use. On the same day, the Chikuhi Line SUGOCA Area Expansion Memorial will launch with a limited number of 500.

In ZLS
It appeared in episode 3, it was where Franchouchou performed their third concert, and where Mezame returner sang

Audiovisual


Estación de Karatsu