History
The station opened on 1 October 1990 in the town of Kotake, Fukuoka Prefecture, as Akaji Station (あかじ駅), under the third-sector Heisei Chikuhō Railway on the Ita Line. Because the romanised form "akaji" carries the unwanted connotation of "financial deficit", the official transliteration was changed to Akadi (あかぢ駅) on 3 March 2001, and the romanisation likewise shifted from AKAJI to AKADI. The station, numbered HC3, is unstaffed and has two opposed side platforms connected by a level crossing, with no station building—only platform shelters. It sits 2.4 km from the line's start at Nōgata, near the northeastern tip of Kotake.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The 2001 rename swapped the kana "じ" for the historic "ぢ" specifically to dissociate the name from the homophone "akaji", which means "financial deficit" in Japanese.