History
Nishitetsu Fukuoka (Tenjin) Station opened on 12 April 1924 as simply Fukuoka Station, the northern terminus of what is now the Nishitetsu Tenjin Ōmuta Line. It was renamed Kyūtetsu Fukuoka around 1939 and Nishitetsu Fukuoka on 22 September 1942. The station was elevated to a second-floor configuration on 1 November 1961 and rebuilt as the centrepiece of the Solaria Terminal Building between 1992 and September 1997 as part of the city's continuous elevated-rail project, then renamed Nishitetsu Fukuoka (Tenjin) on 1 January 2001 to flag its city-centre location. It now occupies a stub-end platform layout on the building's second floor and is the busiest Nishitetsu station.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
The 1956 Toho monster film Rodan (空の大怪獣ラドン) features the pre-elevation Nishitetsu Fukuoka Station in its Fukuoka-destruction sequence; the original ground-level station as filmed no longer exists.