History
Dazaifu Station opened on 28 March 1902 as a halt of the Dazaifu Horse Tramway (later Dazaifu Kidō), making it the oldest surviving station on the present-day Nishitetsu network. Horse traction was replaced by steam in January 1913, and the Dazaifu-to-Futsukaichi (now Nishitetsu-Futsukaichi) section was re-gauged to 1,435 mm and electrified in September 1927. The line was absorbed by the second Kyushu Railway in August 1934 to become the Dazaifu Line, and passed to Nishi-Nippon Railroad (Nishitetsu) in the 1942 amalgamation that created that company. The depot was rebuilt in January 1952, replaced again with the current structure in 1991, and refurbished on 1 January 2019 with a façade designed to harmonise with the approach to Dazaifu Tenmangū shrine. As the line's terminus, Dazaifu serves as the closest station to the famous shrine.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Counting from its forerunner the Dazaifu Horse Tramway, this is the oldest station still in service anywhere on the Nishitetsu network.