History
Kumanishi Station opened on 25 June 1914 as a stop on what was then the Kyushu Electric Tramway, later renamed the Nishitetsu Kitakyushu Line. On 21 March 1956 the new Chikuhō Electric Railroad Line began joint use of the station as a junction. Originally called Sadamoto, the station was renamed Kumanishi in July 1968. When the rest of the Nishitetsu Kitakyushu Line closed on 26 November 2000, Kumanishi became an exclusively Chikuhō Electric Railroad station. The unusually long platforms — a relic of the days when trains in each direction stopped at a different position depending on which line they were taking — are still visible today.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The actual junction point between the two former operators' tracks was located several hundred metres west of the station itself, not at the platforms — a quirk that explains why Kumanishi's platforms are noticeably longer than those of neighbouring stations.