History
Shimoyamato Station opened on 20 July 1986 as an in-fill station on the existing Chikuhi Line in Nishi-ku, Fukuoka, when the line was operated by Japanese National Railways. It is located only 1.6 km from the line's starting point at Meinohama, just outside the main commuter feed into central Fukuoka. With the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987, control of the station passed to JR Kyushu. The station has two side platforms joined by an overhead footbridge with elevators, and management of the staffed ticket window — including a Midori no Madoguchi facility — has been outsourced to JR Kyushu Tetsudou Eigyou Co., a wholly owned subsidiary specialising in station services. Both local and weekday rapid services stop here.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The Fukuoka City Subway's Meinohama train depot, which stables Kūkō-line and Chikuhi-line through services, is nearby.