Haki

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Haki Station is on JR Kyushu's Hisatsu Line in Sakamoto-machi Haki, Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture. The station opened on 21 December 1942 as a Ministry of Railways provisional halt, was staffed from 20 November 1945, and was promoted to a full station on 1 March 1947. For the 1960 Kumamoto National Sports Festival rowing competition the platform was extended by 35 m and the station building and ticket gate were renovated. The station became contract-staffed (entrusted to Nihon Kōtsū Kankōsha) on 1 April 1962, then unstaffed on 1 February 1984 when parcel handling ended, and was succeeded by JR Kyushu on 1 April 1987. The original raised-floor station building, built level with the platform, was demolished in late 2015 and replaced by a simple shelter in March 2016. The host city Yatsushiro has the second-largest population in Kumamoto Prefecture, produces roughly 80% of Japan's igusa (tatami rush), and is also Japan's number-one producer of banpeiyu pomelos.

The platform was extended by 35 metres, and the station building and ticket gate renovated, for the rowing events at the 1960 Kumamoto National Sports Festival; Yatsushiro Shrine's "Myōken-sai" festival every November is counted as one of the three great festivals of Kyushu, alongside Nagasaki Kunchi and the Hakata Gion Yamakasa.