History
Ōzeki Station opened on 8 December 1921 as a stop on the Mitsui Electric Tramway in what is today Tachiarai, Fukuoka Prefecture. The operating company merged into Kyushu Railway in 1924, and that line was absorbed into Kyushu Electric Tramway on 19 September 1942, which renamed itself Nishi-Nippon Railroad three days later. The station has since remained on the Nishitetsu Amagi Line, and now carries station number A05, 11.6 km from the Miyanojin terminus. It became unstaffed on 22 March 2014, gained station numbering in 2017, and was placed under a centralised remote-management system on 1 April 2021.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The station building is decorated with a depiction of the medieval warrior Kikuchi Takemitsu washing his sword in the nearby Tachiarai River, the legend that gave the surrounding town its name.