Dotenouchi

History

Kibōgaoka-Kōkōmae Station opened on 29 April 1958 in the city of Nakama, Fukuoka, as Dotenouchi Station (土手ノ内駅) on the Chikuhō Electric Railroad. It was renamed to its present form, taking the name of the nearby Kibōgaoka High School, on 1 October 2008. In May 2013 the on-site commuter pass and coupon ticket office was closed. On 10 July 2015 the station gained a secondary name, Sekai-Isan Onga-gawa Suigen Ponpu-shitsu, because it is the nearest station to the Onga River pumping room of the former Yawata Steel Works, one of the constituent assets of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites of Japan's Meiji industrial revolution. The unstaffed station has two opposed side platforms and carries the line number CK14.

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

Notes

The station is the nearest stop to the Onga River pumping room of the former Yawata Steel Works, a registered component of Japan's Meiji-era industrial heritage UNESCO World Heritage Site, and carries this listing as its secondary station name since 2015.