Jigenji Station — Local services in Kagoshima

It's a big new station with two platforms, but there is one ticket machine, which is only for local line trains and only takes cash. This would have been disappointing twenty years ago. To further add to the inconvenience the ticket office is usually closed.

On a tangential topic, most of the train on the JR Ibusuki -Makurazaki line are basically nasty cattle trucks, totally unsuited to conveying humans over long distances. They are also packed at busy times when they have only two carriages, and almost empty at quiet time when there are four or...

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