History
Sasabaru Station opened on 9 March 1987 as a temporary stop on the Japanese National Railways Kagoshima Main Line in southern Fukuoka City. Just 23 days later, on 1 April 1987, JR Kyushu took over at national railway privatisation and promoted the site to a permanent station. Initially an unstaffed two-platform stop with no station building, a permanent station building was added in October the same year. The 1998 reconstruction added an underground passage and abolished the in-yard crossing. Automatic ticket gates began service on 29 January 2000, an east-side ticket gate opened on 1 March 2005, and SUGOCA IC cards came into use on 1 March 2009.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Although the station is located in the Ijiri neighbourhood, the existing Nishitetsu Ijiri Station forced JR to name this one after "Sasabaru" — a now-vanished tract of wild grassland that once spread across the area.