History
Hamasaki Station opened on 5 December 1923 as the western terminus of a new line built by the private Kitakyushu Railway from Fukuyoshi. It became a through-station on 7 July 1924 when the line was extended on to Nijinomatsubara. Following the nationalisation of the Kitakyushu Railway on 1 October 1937, the line was designated the Chikuhi Line. The stop was outsourced as a contract station from 22 March 1983, destaffed on 20 January 1985, and passed to JR Kyushu on 1 April 1987. SUGOCA arrived on 13 March 2010, a new north building and free passageway opened on 28 August 2021, and the present full station precinct began service on 26 March 2022.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Until the new south entrance opened in 2022 the station could only be entered from the north, leaving the southern side of the tracks cut off from rail access — Karatsu City's redevelopment finally added a south plaza, rotary and access road.