History
Hakata-Minami Station opened on 1 April 1990 when JR West repurposed the access track to the Hakata Shinkansen depot as a passenger line. The single elevated side platform sits beside the depot in Kasuga, Fukuoka, and is the only intermediate or terminal stop on the 8.5 km Hakata-Minami Line. Although Shinkansen rolling stock is used, services are classed as conventional limited expresses, making the 130 yen express supplement the cheapest such fare on JR. Ticket-window duties were initially outsourced to JR Kyushu and only became direct JR West operations from 2010.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The station is the only solo-operated JR West stop located outside Honshū, and trains here use Shinkansen rolling stock under a conventional-line limited-express fare.