History
Tenpaizan Station was added to the existing Kagoshima Main Line by Kyushu Railway Company (JR Kyushu) on 11 March 1989, 94.3 km south of the line's origin at Mojikō. It is an unstaffed two-platform halt in Chikushino, Fukuoka, named for nearby Mount Tenpai on the long-distance Kyūshū hiking trail. By fiscal 2020 it was averaging 2,166 boarding passengers a day — enough to rank 64th among JR Kyushu's busiest stations — placing it well ahead of most other postwar infill stops on the line and reflecting steady residential growth around Chikushino's city centre.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Tenpaizan is named not after a person or earlier settlement but directly for Mount Tenpai immediately behind it, an unusually literal choice on a line that mostly carries place-name stops.