History
Iizuka Station opened on 3 July 1893 as the southern terminus of the Chikuho Kogyo Railway extension from Wakamatsu. Through-service began on 1 December 1901 when the line was extended onward to Keisen, by which time the operator had merged with the Kyushu Railway. After nationalisation in 1907 the station became a Chikuho Main Line stop in 1909, and served as the starting point of the Kamiyamada Line until that branch closed on 1 September 1988. JR Kyushu took control at privatisation in 1987; SUGOCA arrived on 1 March 2009. The Midori-no-Madoguchi closed on 11 March 2022, and the station has been operating from a temporary depot since 2 August 2025 pending a new half-elevated building.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Iizuka was the city's representative station until 1964, when the relocation of Iizuka City Hall to a site near Shin-Iizuka shifted local rail traffic away from this stop.