There’s one thing barely mystical and Harry Potter-like about these platforms and one has to surprise why some stations have them whether or not it’s as a result of it’s been added on that exact facet of platform 1 or simply as a result of they started their numbering from zero! I’m undecided if I’ll ever go to all of them however actually hope to tick just a few extra off because the years go by! The problem continues with a go to to all of the platform 0 stations in Fukuoka!
1. Haruda station, Fukuoka Prefecture
My journey right here got here straight after I’d been to the unstaffed Igaya station; the closest to the surprise that’s the Eiffel Tower of Saga. Haruda station could also be situated in Fukuoka but it surely’s truly nearer to Tosu station in Saga Prefecture the place I used to be staying so was only a quick one-way eight minute journey on the prepare.
Haruda station, which has been open since December 1889, consists of 5 platforms with the one in all curiosity to me solely getting used for the Chikuho Fundamental Line which runs to Chikuzen-Uchino and Keisen.
There was nearly sufficient time (12 minutes to be precise!) for me to hunt out all of the signage referring to Platform 0.
The encircling space of Chikushino will be seen from the platform itself, and really nice it was too with a variety of greenery and blue sky seen.
2. Tagawagotoji station, Fukuoka Prefecture
A visit to this station was squeezed in in direction of the tip of my day in Fukuoka as I visited some quirky sights on the east facet of the airport. Tagawagotoji is admittedly out on a limb, and doubtless value me the chance of going someplace half respectable however as I’d been to Haruda I felt obliged to finish the set.
Figuring out that I might solely have ten minutes at this station I used to be all-set to blitz my time there and race round getting my desired photographs shortly however because it was I truly arrived on Platform 0 and left on the identical prepare too.
The station has been round since February 1896 however was often called Gotōji earlier than being renamed to Tagawa-gotoji in November 1982. There are 4 platforms however the one one I needed to see was the one serving the Gotōji Line for Shimo-Kamoo and Shin-Iizuka.
Having been to all of the platform zeros in Kyoto and Aichi just some days earlier than this Kyushu journey I used to be on one thing of a roll however would it not proceed?
- Right here is the whole record of stations which have a platform zero. Let me know of any errors or omissions…
Morioka & Kitakami (Iwate)
Sakata (Yamagata)
Kashiwazaki, Echigoyuzawa, Shibata & Higashisanjo (Niigata)
Tatsuno, Okaya & Matsumoto (Nagano)
Anamizu (Ishikawa)
Takasaki (Gunma)
Nippori & Ayase (Tokyo)
Sawara & Yotsukaido (Chiba)
Okazaki (Aichi)
Toba (Mie)
Gifu-Hashima (Gifu)
Kyoto (Kyoto)
Himeji (Hyogo)
Gobo & Shirahama (Wakayama)
Yonago (Tottori)
Hashioka (Kagawa)
Naruto (Tokushima)
Gomen (Kochi)
Nagatoshi, Iwakuni & Ube (Yamaguchi)
Tagawagotoji & Haruda (Fukuoka)
Ishaya (Nagasaki)
Kumamoto (Kumamoto)
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