| Higashi-Kokura Freight Terminal (東小倉駅, Higashi-Kokura-eki) is a freight terminal on the Kagoshima Main Line in Kokurakita-ku, Kitakyūshū, Japan, operated by Japan Freight Railway Company (JR Freight). Presently it handles no trains. The terminal was originally a station serving both passenger and freight trains. It opened on April 1, 1915, as the terminal of the Kokura Railway, the predecessor of the Hitahikosan Line. When the Japanese Government Railways purchased the Kokura Railway on May 1, 1943, the station was reestablished on the Kagoshima Main Line as a junction of the two lines, but the station served no passenger trains on the Kagoshima Main Line. The passenger service at the station was ceased on November 19, 1956, as the section between Higashi-Kokura and Ishida on the Hitahikosan Line ceased to operate passenger trains. |
