Kitayama Rail Pages
Hitahikosan line


JR Kyūshū 九州旅客鉄道  Kyūshū Ryokaku Tetsudō     Kyushu Railway Company

Hitahikosan 日田彦山線 1067 mm     Non-electric
You can find Kitayama Rail Maps for this line on these pages: Kurume
Kitakyūshū Tagawa
Opened1915Higashi-Kokura - Kawara Opened1956Hikosan - Daigyōji
1957Kawara - Tagawa-Ita1946Daigyōji - Hōshuyama
1896Tagawa-Ita - Tagawa-Gotōji1937Hōshuyama - Yoake
1899 - 1903Tagawa-Gotōji - Nishi-Soeda Re-routing1956Starting in Jōno (+1.2 km) instead of Higashi-Kokura (-4.4 km)
1942Nishi-Soeda - HikosanTracksSingle track 
The name is derived from the Hita city and the Hikosan mountain.
South of Hikosan station is the 4.4 km Shakagatake tunnel.
MapionGoogle Major stations Connecting lines KmCityPrefecture
Kokura
0.0 Kitakyūshū-shi Fukuoka
Jōno JR Kyūshū: Nippō Hon 6.1 Kitakyūshū-shi Fukuoka
Shii-kōen Kitakyūshū Kōsoku: Kokura [Kikugaoka] 11.2 Kitakyūshū-shi
Saidōsho
24.2 Kawara-machi
Kawara
29.5 Kawara-machi
Tagawa-Ita Heisei Chikuhō: Tagawa 33.5 Tagawa-shi
Tagawa-Gotōji Heisei Chikuhō: Itoda, JR Kyūshū: Gotōji 36.1 Tagawa-shi
Nishi-Soeda
44.4 Soeda-machi
Soeda
45.6 Soeda-machi
Hikosan
53.3 Soeda-machi
Daigyōji
65.4 Tōhō-mura
Hōshuyama
67.4 Tōhō-mura
Yoake JR Kyūshū: Kyūdai Hon (Yufu Kōgen) 74.8 Hita-shi Ōita

Traffic pattern
The traffic pattern was accurate at: Mar 22, 2011
TypeOrigin - Major stops - DestinationTrains
per day
Fastest
train
Average
speed
Local
Futsū
普通
Kokura - Tagawa-Gotōji1453 min41 km/h
Kokura - Soeda51h0840 km/h
Kokura - Yoake - Hita52h1038 km/h
Saidōsho - Tagawa-Gotōji135 min20 km/h
Kawara - Soeda133 min29 km/h
Tagawa-Ita - Tagawa-Gotōji14 min39 km/h
Tagawa-Ita - Yoake - Hita - Ōita14h0535 km/h
Shin-Iizuka - Gotōji line -Tagawa-Gotōji - Hikosan150 min37 km/h
Tagawa-Gotōji - Soeda214 min41 km/h
Tagawa-Gotōji - Yoake - Hita31h0742 km/h


This page is updated Mar 21, 2011