Chikugo-Yoshii Station

The station is served by the Kyūdai Main Line and is located 26.4 km from the starting point of the line at Kurume.^[3] Only local trains on the line stop at the station.^{[citation needed]}

The station consists of one island platform and side platforms serving three tracks at grade. Two sidings branch off track 1. The station is a modern structure but built in a traditional Japanese style with white plaster namako walls to recall the white plaster traditional houses which are a tourist attraction in former Yoshii town nearby. The station building houses a waiting room and a ticket window. Access to the opposite side platform is by means of a footbridge.^[3][2]

Management of the station has been outsourced to the JR Kyushu Tetsudou Eigyou Co., a wholly owned subsidiary of JR Kyushu specialising in station services. It staffs the ticket counter which is equipped with a POS machine but does not have a Midori no Madoguchi facility.^[4][5]

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  A view of the station platforms and tracks.

Japanese Government Railways (JGR) opened Chikugo-Yoshii on 24 December 1928 as the eastern terminus of a track from Kurume during the first phase of the construction of the Kyūdai Main Line. Chikugo-Yoshii became a through-station on 11 July 1931 when the track was extended east to Chikugo-Ōishi. With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR), the successor of JGR, on 1 April 1987, JR Kyushu took over control of the station.^[6][7]

In fiscal 2016, the station was used by an average of 549 passengers daily (boarding passengers only), and it ranked 233ed among the busiest stations of JR Kyushu.^[8]

• Yoshii town traditional houses. A group of traditional buildings built with namako white plaster walls for fire-proofing in a style known as dozo dzukuri. The district is located near the station and has been officially classified as an Important Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings.^[9]

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  Traditional houses in Yoshii town. The station building is built to resemble them.