History
Aka Station opened on 15 March 2003 on the Heisei Chikuhō Railway Tagawa Line in Aka, Fukuoka Prefecture. It sits at the planned junction with the never-completed JNR Yusubaru Line, which was intended to link Toyotsu-Kawasaki via Ōtō to Yusubaru but was abandoned amid the collapse of local coal production and weak ridership forecasts. The station building doubles as the Aka Village Chamber of Commerce and Industry office, and the platform serves a single bi-directional track with no permanent staff. On the un-built stretch of right-of-way through the village, volunteers run a small tourist trolley over a short segment of track once a month outside the winter season; that operation resumed in March 2023 after a COVID-19 pause.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Aka is one of a small handful of Japanese station names written with a single colour-kanji — the Wikipedia article specifically lists it alongside Murasaki Station on the Nishitetsu Tenjin-Ōmuta Line and Midori Station on JR Hokkaido's Senmō Main Line.