History
Ōhashi opened on 12 April 1924 — the original station stood on what is today Ōhashi 2-chōme. The Nishitetsu Hirao — Ōhashi section was elevated on 3 March 1978, and the station moved to its present site in Ōhashi 1-chōme; the same change made it an express stop except on weekday morning peak inbound trains, and the original Nishitetsu Meitengai shopping arcade opened. Platforms were extended for 8-car operation in January 2001; barrier-free works finished on 20 March 2004; the nimoca IC card began on 18 May 2008. Station numbering as T05 was introduced on 1 February 2017 and the station became a limited-express stop on 26 August 2017. The shopping arcade was renovated and reopened as RAIRIA Ohashi on 26 April 2019. From the 16 March 2024 timetable revision, some inbound morning peak expresses began stopping at Hirao and Takamiya to ease platform crowding here.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Ōhashi is the central station of Fukuoka's Minami Ward and the first station from Tenjin equipped with passing tracks, so most local trains here wait for limited-express and express services to overtake them. The station building 'RAIRIA Ohashi' is a coined name combining 'RAIL', 'ARIA', and 'AREA', and was launched here in April 2019 as the prototype for further Nishitetsu shopping-arcade conversions.