History
Meinohama Station opened on 15 April 1925 as a new eastern terminus of the privately owned Kitakyushu Railway. The line was nationalised on 1 October 1937 and merged into the Chikuhi Line. On 22 March 1983 the Chikuhi Line section between Meinohama and Hakata closed; the Fukuoka City Subway Line 1 (now the Airport Line) opened the same day with mutual through-running, redefining the station as the eastern terminus of the Chikuhi Line and the western terminus of the subway. Elevated platforms entered service on 20 October 1982, with the full elevation and subway project finishing on 31 March 1984. The station passed to JR Kyushu at privatisation on 1 April 1987.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Although Meinohama is the official start of the Chikuhi Line, the kilometre post on the platform reads 12.5 km — the distance from the pre-1963 location of Hakata Station via Toribara, preserved from the line's original measurement origin.