History
Hizen-Kubo Station opened on 1 March 1935 as "Banzuīn Station" (幡随院駅) when the private Kitakyushu Railway extended its Chikuhi Line westward from Yamamoto to Imari. The Kitakyushu Railway was nationalised on 1 October 1937, at which point Japanese Government Railways renamed the station Hizen-Kubo and designated the line part of the Chikuhi Line. Freight handling ended on 1 October 1962, and parcel handling on 31 March 1971, when the station was unstaffed. At the JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987 control passed to JR Kyushu. The wooden station building was largely demolished after unstaffing and was eventually replaced by a small structure named "Sakura-kan" housing a waiting area and toilets.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The station was originally named after Banzuīn Chōbei, the famed Edo-period machi-yakko commoner-leader whose birthplace lies near the station; a stone marker reading "Banzuīn Chōbei birthplace" stands in Chōbei Park about four minutes' walk away.