Station

Kyujo-mae (Okayama)

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Kyujo-mae (Okayama)
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Train service

No publicly available departure data for this station.

Location

History

Kyūjōmae Station (MR1) is on the Mizushima Rinkai Railway Mizushima Main Line in Shijūse, Kurashiki, Okayama. Construction of the platform began on 19 April 1949 and the station opened a month later on 20 May 1949. Ownership passed to Kurashiki Municipal Transportation Bureau on 1 April 1952 when Kurashiki City took over from the Mizushima Industrial City Development corporation, and then to the Mizushima Rinkai Railway on 1 April 1970. In 1982 the station was relocated 0.5 km toward Kurashiki-shi from its original site near the old National Route 2 (now Route 429). The station has a single ground-level side platform, is unstaffed, and has no station building or waiting room beyond a small roof over part of the platform.

Notes

The station name comes from the Kurashiki Municipal Baseball Stadium in Kurashiki Sports Park — but the original wooden hardball stadium has since been replaced by a softball ground, and high-level baseball in Kurashiki is now hosted at the Mascat Stadium served by JR's Nakashō Station on the San'yō Line.

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