History
Yusubaru Station opened on 15 August 1895 on the privately operated Hōshū Railway in what is now Aka, Fukuoka Prefecture. The Hōshū Railway was absorbed by the Kyushu Railway on 3 September 1901, and that company was nationalised on 1 July 1907. Japanese Government Railways designated the line the Hōshū Main Line on 12 October 1909. The station became unstaffed in February 1984. JR Kyushu inherited it at the 1 April 1987 privatisation of JNR, and on 1 October 1989 it transferred with the rest of the line to the third-sector Heisei Chikuhō Railway. The wooden station building has stood since opening and was restored in February 2022 by Nishi-Nippon Institute of Technology and Aka Village to evoke its 1895 appearance.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Local lore notes that wild pheasants regularly fly into the station yard and can be seen walking along the platform — an occasional avian distraction at what is otherwise described as Kyūshū's oldest surviving wooden station building.