History
Harumachi opened on 19 June 1904 in Harumachi, Kasuya Town, when the first Kyushu Railway built the Sasaguri Line as a coal-mining branch. The line was nationalised on 1 July 1907. Daily operations were contracted to Nippon Kōtsū Kankō from 1 April 1963, and JR Kyushu took over with the 1987 break-up of Japanese National Railways. The depot was rebuilt in March 1997, automatic ticket gates were installed on 26 October 2000, and SUGOCA contactless ticketing started on 1 March 2009. The 13 March 2021 timetable change made Harumachi a stop for daytime rapid services, the ticket counter closed on 11 March 2022, and the station was brought back under JR Kyushu's direct operation on 1 October 2023. The station served as Kasuya's central station until neighbouring Chōjabaru opened in 1988.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Harumachi was the town of Kasuya's main station until 1988, when JR Kyushu opened nearby Chōjabaru and the local centre of gravity shifted east.