History
Buzen-Masuda Station opened on 25 August 1942 when the Tagawa Line was extended south from Nishi-Soeda to Hikosan; it later became part of the Hitahikosan Line in 1960. Both freight and parcel handling ended in 1971, and the station was destaffed. JR Kyushu inherited the stop on 1 April 1987. All services were suspended on 5 July 2017 after the Northern Kyushu torrential rains damaged the line's infrastructure. Rail service was formally replaced by the BRT Hikoboshi Line bus rapid transit on 28 August 2023; the BRT stop is now sited along the adjacent prefectural road west of the former platform, which still survives even though the trackbed has been removed.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The station's rail platform still stands even though the tracks have been pulled up — passengers now board the replacement BRT bus from a separate stop on the prefectural road just west of the abandoned platform.