History
Nanakuma Station opened on 3 February 2005 as part of the inaugural batch of stops on the Fukuoka City Subway Nanakuma Line in Jōnan-ku, Fukuoka. Implementation design ran from April 2000 to December 2000, with construction by a Shimizu–Fukuda–Morimoto joint venture between January 2003 and December 2004. The single-island-platform underground station sits beneath the Jōnan Gakuen-dōri road and lends its name to the line it serves. The station has been a contract-operated station since opening, with Nippon Express's Fukuoka branch handling station business under management from Hashimoto Station.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The station symbol — seven violet hexagonal wheels — derives from the place name's alternative reading "Nanaguruma" (七車, "seven wheels").