History
Tsuiki Station opened on 19 June 1933 as an infill station on the Nippō Main Line. In 1941 a dedicated spur was completed to the then-under-construction Imperial Japanese Navy Tsuiki Airfield. The original station building was destroyed by fire on 31 January 1955 after flames spread from a nearby sawmill, with a replacement opening that June. The 1967 electrification between Niihara and Saiki included a routing change that pushed the line up to 290 m inland from the original alignment. Freight handling ended in November 1982 and the air-base spur was lifted in 1983. With the 1 April 1987 privatisation of JNR the station passed to JR Kyushu; SUGOCA acceptance began in March 2009.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
When the Niihara-to-Saiki electrification went in in 1967, the line had to be moved inland here because overhead catenary would have breached the height limits of nearby Tsuiki Air Base under aviation law.