Station

Heiwadōri

平和通

Heiwadōri
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History

Heiwadōri (station number 02 on the Kitakyushu Monorail's Kokura Line) sits in Sakaichō, Kokurakita-ku, Kitakyushu, and carries the subsidiary name Uomachi Shōtengai-mae. It opened on 9 January 1985 as the initial Kokura terminus when the monorail itself began service. When the line was pushed inside JR Kokura Station's building on 1 April 1998 it became an intermediate stop and was renamed Heiwadōri. mono SUGOCA contactless ticketing became available on 1 October 2015. The station is built on an elevated island platform with two tracks; because it was originally the line's terminus the section between Kokura and Heiwadōri is laid out as a pair of single tracks rather than a true double track.

History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.

Notes

Because the station was originally the line's terminus, the track between Heiwadōri and Kokura remains a pair of single tracks, and neither platform is dedicated to inbound or outbound trains — passengers check the indicator board to find their direction.

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