History
Nishitetsu Ogōri Station opened on 12 April 1924 as Ogōri Station on the Kyushu Railway, the predecessor of the Nishitetsu Tenjin Ōmuta Line. It was renamed Kyūtetsu Ogōri on 1 July 1939 and received its present name on 22 September 1942 when the operator became Nishi-Nippon Railway. Express services began stopping in December 1956, the station building was rebuilt in 1957 and again in 1989, and an elevator was added in 2010. nimoca IC service started on 18 May 2008, station numbering was introduced on 1 February 2017, and contactless credit-card payment trials began on 10 September 2024. The ground-level station has two island platforms serving four tracks.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
Because the turnback siding sits south of the station, terminating trains overrun south across National Route 500 before reversing back to the up platform — repeatedly closing the level crossing and snarling road traffic.