History
Watanabe-dōri Station opened on 3 February 2005 on the Fukuoka City Subway Nanakuma Line, having been designed between 1999 and 2000 and built from March 2003 to July 2004. It has been a business-outsourced station since opening, under Tenjin-Minami's managed area, with JR Kyushu Service Support handling day-to-day operations. The station sits beneath Watanabe-dōri (Watanabe Avenue, Fukuoka Prefectural Route 602) and has a single island platform serving two tracks; the station code is N15.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The street and station are named for the entrepreneur Yohachirō Watanabe, who in 1911 spearheaded the construction of the original Fukuoka tram line along the avenue; the subway station's symbol depicts that streetcar.