Sōjōdaigakumae Station

Sōjōdaigakumae Station (崇城大学前駅) is a railway station on the Kagoshima Main Line in Nishi-ku, Kumamoto, Japan. The station name means, literally, "in front of Sojo University".

Lines
The station is served by the Kagoshima Main Line and is located 191.7 km from the starting point of the line at Mojiko.

Layout
The station consists of two side platforms serving two tracks at grade. There is no station building, only shelters on both platforms for waiting passengers and a small brickwork booth housing a ticket window. Access to the opposite side platform is by a footbridge.

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 POS machine but does not have a Midori no Madoguchi facility.

History
JR Kyushu opened the station on 13 March 1988 as an additional station on the existing track of the Kagoshima Main Line. At that time, the station was named Kumamoto Kōdaimae (熊本工大前駅), literally "in front of Kumamoto Industrial University", after the institute of higher education nearby. The university changed its name to Sojo University (崇城大学) in 2000. Four years later, the station followed suit, becoming Sōjōdaigakumae on 13 March 2004. With the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987, JR Kyushu took over control of the station.

Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2016, the station was used by an average of 1,475 passengers daily (boarding passengers only), and it ranked 119th among the busiest stations of JR Kyushu.