Sosanji Station


Sosanji Station is a train station in Miyazaki City, Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by of JR Kyushu and is on the Nichinan Line.

Lines

Sosanji Station is served by the Nichinan Line and is located 10.2 km from the starting point of the line at.

Layout

The station, which is unstaffed, consists of a side platform serving a single track at grade in an area of rural farmland. There is no station building, only a simple shelter made from disused rails on the platform.

Adjacent stations

History

The private Miyazaki Light Railway opened the station on 20 March 1915 as an additional station on a line which it had laid in 1913 between and Uchiumi. The station closed when the Miyazaki Railway ceased operations on 1 July 1962. Subsequently, Japanese National Railways extended its then Shibushi Line north from towards Minami-Miyazaki on the same route and reopened Sosanji as an intermediate station on 8 May 1963. With the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR Kyushu.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2016, the station was used by an average of 21 passengers per day.