History
Nishijin Station opened on 26 July 1981 with the inaugural section of the Fukuoka City Subway, replacing the Nishitetsu Fukuoka Inner-city Line tram stop of the same name that had closed in 1975. A turnback siding immediately west of the platform housed a temporary inspection pit between July 1980 and March 1983, allowing the line's first three years of operation before the Meinohama depot opened. The station was outsourced to a contractor and moved from the Meinohama managed area to the Tenjin managed area on 1 April 2019. An island platform on two tracks underpins the Meiji-dōri Nishijin intersection; the station code is K04.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
On 30 January 2015 the station was decorated with a ceramic Sazae-san mural made in the local Takatori-yaki ware, honouring the area's connection to the long-running family comic.