History
Mojikō Station opened on 1 April 1891 as Moji Station, the northern terminus of the Kyushu Railway. Ferry service to Shimonoseki began on 27 May 1901, making it the gateway between Honshu and Kyushu until cross-strait freight shifted to a Komorie-Shimonoseki train ferry in October 1911. The current Neo-Renaissance building, designed by the Kyushu Railway Bureau, was completed in January 1914. It was renamed Mojikō on 1 April 1942 when the new Kanmon Railway Tunnel made the adjacent Dairi Station the principal gateway, and that station took over the Moji name. The building was designated an Important Cultural Property in November 1988 and reopened on 10 March 2019 after a major restoration begun in 2012.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The 1914 station building and Tokyo Station's Marunouchi side are the only two operating Japanese stations designated as Important Cultural Properties; restoration work in the 2010s uncovered scars from a 5 March 1945 US air-raid that killed three people inside the precinct.