Huis Ten Bosch Station
Introduction  is a railway station on the Ōmura Line in Haenosaki-chō, Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by JR Kyushu and is on the Ōmura Line.This station serves the Huis Ten Bosch theme park after which it is named.
Lines The station is served by the Ōmura Line and is located 4.7 km from the starting point of the line at . Besides the local services on the line, the Rapid ''Seaside Liner'' also stops at the station. The station is the terminus for the JR Kyushu Limited Express ''Huis Ten Bosch'' from .
Station layout The station consists of an island platform serving two tracks. The station building is built of brick in a Dutch style to blend with the theme park and is a hashigami structure, built over the platforms and tracks and houses a ticket counter, a waiting area and a shop. A flight of steps and an elevator from the station concourse gives access to the platform below. Platform/track 2 is a through-track and is used by Ōmura Line traffic. Platform/line 1 was also formerly a through-track but has now become a dead-end siding in order to accommodate the installation of an elevator shaft. It is used for trains such as the ''Huis Ten Bosch'' limited express which terminates at the station. Of the stations on the Ōmura Line, only the section from  to this station has been electrified to accommodate the ''Huis Ten Bosch'' express trains.Management of the station has been outsourced to the JR Kyushu Tetsudou Eigyou Co., a wholly owned subsidiary of JR Kyushu specialising in station services. It staffs the ticket counter which is equipped with a ''Midori no Madoguchi'' facility.file:JR Huis-ten-bosch Sta. - panoramio.jpg|A distant view of the station, approaching it by way of the bridge from the theme park.file:Omura Line Huis Ten Bosch Station Front.jpg|The east entrance of the station. The theme park is on the other side.file:JRKyushu HuistenboschStation 20130102.jpg|A view of the platforms in 2013.Track 1 is a siding. Note the elevator shaft behind it and the station building above.file:Huis Ten Bosch Station 4.JPG|An older view of platform/track 1 in 2005 when it was still a through track and there was no elevator shaft.file:Omura Line Huis Ten Bosch Station Platform.JPG|Platform 2 in the direction of . Note the catenary wires.file:Huis Ten Bosch Station 5.JPG|Ticket gate and steps leading down to the platforms.
Adjacent stations
History JR Kyushu opened the station on 10 March 1992 shortly before the opening of the theme park.
Passenger statistics In fiscal 2016, the station was used by an average of 1,638 passengers daily (boarding passengers only), and it ranked 110th  among the busiest stations of JR Kyushu.
Surrounding area *Huis Ten Bosch (theme park)*Nagasaki International University*WINS Sasebo
See also * List of railway stations in Japan
References
External links * Huis Ten Bosch Station (JR Kyushu)