Kurume Station

Kurume Station is served by the Kyushu Shinkansen and is 35.7 kilometers from {{STN|Hakata|x}} and 658.0 kilometers from {{STN|Shin-Osaka|x}}. With regards to regular train services, it is served by the Kagoshima Main Line, for which it is 113.9 kilometers from the terminus of the line at {{STN|Mojikō|x}}. It is also the western terminus of the 141.5 kilometer Kyūdai Main Line to {{STN|Ōita|x}}.

The Shinkansen portion of the station consists of two facing side platforms and two tracks located on the third floor of the station building. There are no passing tracks, and platform safety gates are installed for safety. The conventional line station consists of two island platforms with four tracks and one cutout platform with one track, for a total of three platforms and five tracks. There is also a siding track. The east side (station building side) platform has numbers 1 and 3, and the cutout platform number 2. Platforms 4 and 5 are located on the west side of the platform. The station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office.{{Cite book|last=Kawashima|first=Ryōzō|script-title=ja: 図説: 日本の鉄道 四国・九州ライン 全線・全駅・全配線・第4巻 福岡エリア|year=2013 |publisher=Kodansha|isbn=9784062951630|trans-title=Japan Railways Illustrated. Shikoku and Kyushu. All lines, all stations, all track layouts. Volume 4 Fukuoka Area|language=Japanese|pages=34, 73}}{{cite web|url=http://jr-mars.dyndns.org/view/station/view1.php?stat_no=600144|title=田主丸駅|trans-title=Tanushimaru Station|accessdate=7 April 2018|website=jr-mars.dyndns.org}} See images of tickets sold.

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By December 1889, the privately run Kyushu Railway had opened a stretch of track from {{STN|Hakata|x}} to the (now closed) Chitosegawa temporary stop. In the next phase of expansion, the track was extended southwards to Kurume, which opened as the new southern terminus on 1 March 1890. Kurume became a through-station on 1 April 1891 when the track was further extended to {{STN|Setaka|x}}. When the Kyushu Railway was nationalized on 1 July 1907, Japanese Government Railways (JGR) took over control of the station. On 12 October 1909, the station became part of the Hitoyoshi and Nagasaki Main Lines. On 21 November 1909, the Hitoyoshi Main Line was renamed the Kagoshima Main Line. With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR), the successor of JGR, on 1 April 1987, JR Kyushu took over control of the station.{{Teishajo|I|218}}{{Teishajo|II|681}}

In fiscal 2020, the station was used by 5430 passengers daily (boarding passengers only), and it ranked 22nd among the busiest stations of JR Kyushu.{{Cite web|title=駅別乗車人員上位300駅（2020年度）|url=https://www.jrkyushu.co.jp/company/info/data/pdf/2020ekibetsu.pdf|format=PDF|accessdate=2023-09-08}}

• Kurume City Hall
• Kurume University School of Medicine/University Hospital
• Fukuoka Prefectural Meizen High School

• List of railway stations in Japan

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• [https://www.jrkyushu.co.jp/EkiApp?LISTID=502&EKI=91101380 Kurume Station (JR Kyushu)]{{in lang|ja}}

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