Kurosaki-Ekimae

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Kurosaki-ekimae Station (CK01) is the terminus of the Chikuhō Electric Railroad Line at the western side of JR Kurosaki Station in Yahatanishi-ku, Kitakyūshū. It opened on 15 July 1911 when the Kyūshū Electric Tramway extended its main line from Ōkuragawa to Kurosaki, and became a Nishitetsu Kitakyūshū Line stop on 22 September 1942. The stop originally stood on the western side of the station rotary, and on 25 October 1992 the Nishitetsu Kitakyūshū Line east of it was abandoned, the track being cut just east of the platforms to leave a stub terminus that stayed in use until 1999. In December 1999 the stop was relocated to its present three-platform, two-track stub layout on the ground floor of the COM CITY building, and on 26 November 2000 Nishitetsu withdrew from the Kumanishi-to-Kurosaki section, retaining the infrastructure as a Class 3 operator while Chikuhō Electric Railroad took over operations as a Class 2 operator, making Kurosaki-ekimae a Chikuden-run station. In March 2015 Chikuhō Electric Railroad became the Class 1 operator and the assets became formally its property.

Kurosaki-ekimae's platforms sit at the same level as the adjacent Nishitetsu Kurosaki Bus Center on the COM CITY ground floor, with buses heading to Yahata and Kokura halting directly beside the tram platform so that transfers between tram and bus can be made step-free on a single concourse.