The Hakata Minami Line (博多南線) is an 8.5km railway line in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, connecting Hakata Station in Fukuoka to Hakata-Minami Station in Kasuga. It is operated by the West Japan Railway Company. Fukuoka Prefecture (福岡県 Fukuoka-ken) is located on Kyushu Island, Japan. ... Hakata Station (博多駅) is the main railway terminal in Fukuoka city, Japan. ... Masanobu Fukuoka, author of The One Straw Revolution, is the pioneer of No Till grain growing (see also permaculture) Fukuoka is also the name of two towns in Japan, Fukuoka, Toyama (in Toyama Prefecture) and Fukuoka, Gifu (in Gifu Prefecture) View of downtown Fukuoka as seen from an observation deck... Kasuga (春日市; -shi) is a city located in Fukuoka, Japan. ... West Japan Railway Company (西日本旅客鉄道株式会社 Nishi Nihon Ryokaku Tetsudô Kabushiki Gaisha), commonly known as JR-West (JR西日本 JR Nishi Nihon), is one of JR companies in Japan that covers western Honshu. ...

The line was originally built in the 1970s to transport Sanyo Shinkansen trains from the Hakata terminal to a large train depot in Kasuga. At that time, Kasuga was a rural region and did not merit a train station of its own. By the late 1980s, however, the area had become a sprawling suburb of Fukuoka. JR decided to build a station adjacent to the depot, and inaugurated service in 1990 with 0 Series Shinkansen trains. Sanyō Shinkansen (山陽新幹線; Sanyō Shinkansen) is a line of Shinkansen high speed rail, connecting Shin-Osaka with Hakata Station in Fukuoka, and it is operated by West Japan Railway Company. ... 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Shinkansen 0 Series at Fukuyama Station, April 2002 The 0 Series Shinkansen were the first trainsets built to run on Japans new high speed rail network, and are therefore still the image of the Shinkansen in the minds of most non-Japanese because of all the publicity they received...

Although the line uses Shinkansen equipment, it is not considered a part of the Shinkansen network. [Note: Incorrect statement about the Seikan Tunnel including standadr tracks deleted. Despite "official" references that state otherwise, the Seikan Tunnel presently has narrow gauge tracks only. Anyone who has visited the undersea stations or seen pictures will be able to confirm this.] Shinkansen 0 Series at Fukuyama Station, April 2002 Shinkansen 500 Series at Kyoto Station, April 2002 300 (Left) and 700 Series Shinkansen at Tokyo Station The Shinkansen (新幹線) is a network of high speed rail lines in Japan on which the famous Bullet Trains run. ...

The trip from Hakata to Hakata-Minami takes ten minutes and costs 290 yen. A 1,000 yen note, featuring the portrait of Natsume Soseki. ...