Kiyotake Station
Lines. The station is served by the Nippō Main Line and is located 347.8 km from the starting point of the line at . Layout. The station consists of an island platform serving two tracks with a siding. The station building is timber structure in western style which houses a waiting area and SUGOCA card reader. Access to the island platform is by means of a footbridge. History. The station was opened on 20 March 1915 as the southern terminus of a line which Miyazaki Prefectural Railway had laid from . In the meantime, Japanese Government Railways (JGR) had opened  the Miyazaki Line from to on 8 October 1913 and had been expanding east and north towards Miyazaki in phases, reaching by 21 March 1916. On 25 October 1916, the track at Kiyotake was linked up with the track from Aoidake. Miyazaki Prefectural Railway was nationalized. JGR designated the track to Miyazaki as part of the Miyazaki Line and later, on 21 September 1917, the Miyazaki Main Line. By 1923, the Miyazaki Main Line track had reached north to link up with the track of the Nippō Main Line at . On 15 December 1923, the entire stretch of track from  Shigeoka through Miyazaki to Yoshimatsu, including Kiyotake, was designated as part of the Nippō Main Line. With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR), the successor of JGR, on 1 April 1987, Kiyotake came under the control of JR Kyushu. Passenger statistics. In fiscal 2016, the station was used by an average of 520 passengers daily (boarding passengers only), and it ranked 243rd among the busiest stations of JR Kyushu.