Nishi-Kokura

Nishi-Kokura Station is a junctuion passenger railway station located in Kokurakita-ku, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by JR Kyushu.

Photo: Hamihoko, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Type: Railway station
Description: railway station in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan
Also known as: “Nishi-Kokura Station”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Kokura Castle and Matsumoto Seicho Memorial Museum.

Kokura Castle

Castle

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Kokura Castle is a five-story castle in Kitakyushu, Japan. A castle was first built at the current site in 1569. Construction of a more substantial replacement commenced in 1602 under the direction of daimyo Tadaoki Hosokawa. Kokura Castle is situated 460 metres south of Nishi-Kokura.

Matsumoto Seicho Memorial Museum

Museum

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The Matsumoto Seicho Memorial Museum is a literature museum in Kitakyushu, Japan. It is dedicated to Seichō Matsumoto, who spent the first half of his life in Kitakyusyu. The museum is located next to Kokura Castle. Matsumoto Seicho Memorial Museum is situated 560 metres south of Nishi-Kokura.

Kokura Station

Railway station

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Kokura Station in Kokurakita-ku is the main railway station in Kitakyushu, Japan. It is part of the JR Kyushu network and the San'yō Shinkansen stops here. Kokura Station is situated 1 km east of Nishi-Kokura.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tobata-ku and Kokuraminami-ku.

Tobata-ku

Suburb

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Tobata-ku is a ward of Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan. It is the smallest ward of the city at 16.66 km2. The population was 64,330 as of the national census in 2000. Tobata-ku is situated 4 km west of Nishi-Kokura.

Kokuraminami-ku

Suburb

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Kokuraminami-ku is a ward of Kitakyūshū, Fukuoka, Japan. It is the southern part of what used to be Kokura City, which was merged into Kitakyūshū city when the latter was created out of the merger of five cities in 1963. Kokuraminami-ku is situated 5 km south of Nishi-Kokura.

Wakamatsu-ku

Suburb

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Wakamatsu-ku is a ward of Kitakyūshū, Fukuoka, Japan. It has an area of 67.86 km2 and a population of about 88,594. Wakamatsu-ku is situated 6 km west of Nishi-Kokura.

Nishi-Kokura

Categories: railway station above ground, over-track railway station, junction station, interchange station, last station, directly managed station, overtaking station, passenger railway station, station, and transportation
Location: Kokurakita-ku, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Kyushu, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude

33.8886° or 33° 53′ 19″ north

Longitude

130.87402° or 130° 52′ 27″ east

Operator

九州旅客鉄道

Open location code

8Q5GVVQF+CJ

OpenStreetMap ID

node 6060489262

OpenStreetMap feature

public_transport=station

OpenStreetMap feature

railway=station

Wikidata ID

Q5360805

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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Urdu—“Nishi-Kokura” goes by many names.

Chinese: “西小倉站”
Chinese: “西小倉車站”
French: “Nishi-Kokura”
German: “Nishi-Kokura”
Indonesian: “Stasiun Nishi-Kokura”
Japanese: “JA27”
Japanese: “JF02”
Japanese: “JI02”
Japanese: “西小倉”
Japanese: “西小倉駅”
Korean: “니시고쿠라 역”
Korean: “니시코쿠라”
Korean: “니시코쿠라역”
Ukrainian: “Ніші-Кокура”
Urdu: “نیشی کوکورا اسٹیشن”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Nishi-Kokura and 九州旅客鉄道株式会社北部九州地域本社.

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