History
Kurosaki-ekimae Station (CK01) is the terminus of the Chikuhō Electric Railroad Line at the western side of JR Kurosaki Station in Yahatanishi-ku, Kitakyūshū. It opened on 15 July 1911 when the Kyūshū Electric Tramway extended its main line from Ōkuragawa to Kurosaki, and became a Nishitetsu Kitakyūshū Line stop on 22 September 1942. The original site at the western side of the station rotary closed on 25 October 1992 with the abandonment of the Nishitetsu Kitakyūshū Line east of here. In December 1999 the stop was relocated to its present three-platform, two-track stub layout on the ground floor of the COM CITY building, and on 26 November 2000 Nishitetsu transferred operations of the Kumanishi-to-Kurosaki section to Chikuhō Electric Railroad as a Class 2 operator, making Kurosaki-ekimae a fully Chikuden station. In March 2015 Chikuhō Electric Railroad became the Class 1 operator and the assets became formally its property.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
Kurosaki-ekimae's platforms sit at the same level as the adjacent Nishitetsu Kurosaki Bus Center on the COM CITY ground floor, with buses heading to Yahata and Kokura halting directly beside the tram platform so that transfers between tram and bus can be made step-free on a single concourse.