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The Kiyama Parking Area (基山パーキングエリア) is a rest area of the Kyushu Expressway between Chikushino, Fukuoka and Kiyama, Saga, Japan, with an expressway bus stop. History [ edit ]
West Sea Circuit) referred to Kyushu and its surrounding islands. Kyushu has a land area of 36,782 square kilometres (14,202 sq mi) and a population of 14,311,224 in 2018. [5] In the 8th-century Taihō Code reforms, Dazaifu was established as a special administrative term for the region. [6]
The Kyushu Railway Company (JR Kyushu) introduced the system on March 1, 2009. The name come from "Smart Urban Going Card", while sugoka ( 凄か ) in the local Kyūshū dialect means "great". Like other electronic fare collection systems in Japan, the card uses RFID technology developed by Sony Corporation, known as FeliCa .
For the purposes of development analysis, the area is construed to include Yamaguchi Prefecture on Honshū. Although Yamaguchi is not part of Kyūshū, it is a functional satellite of the Kanmon Straits Metropolitan Area . [3] The region is part of the Taiheiyō Belt and comprises the Northern Kyushu Industrial Zone .
Fukuhoku Yutaka Line 813 series local EMU Chikuhō Main Line (red) and Fukuhoku Yutaka Line (yellow) in northern Kyushu. The Fukuhoku Yutaka Line (福北ゆたか線, Fukuhoku-Yutaka-sen) is the collective name for four sections of railway lines operated by Kyushu Railway Company (JR Kyushu) in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan.
The Kanmon Straits (関門海峡, Kanmon-kaikyō) or the Straits of Shimonoseki is the stretch of water separating Honshu and Kyushu, two of Japan's four main islands.On the Honshu side of the strait is Shimonoseki (下関, which contributed "Kan" (関) to the name of the strait) and on the Kyushu side is Kitakyushu, whose former city and present ward, Moji (門司), gave the strait its "mon ...
View history; General What links here; Related changes; ... Southern Kyushu Data Sum of 3 prefectures Area 19,139.71km 2: General Population 4,174,505 （May 2016）
December 12, 2004, the tunnel from Hitoyoshi to Ebino Interchanges which made Kyushu Expressway with four lanes now being connected with no gaps; February 26, 2006, Kitakyushu Junction was opened to traffic with another freeway; March 29, 2009, the Miyama-Yanagawa Interchange was opened; February 19, 2011, the Kurate Interchange was opened