History
Sari Station opened on 1 March 1935 as Sari Onsen, an intermediate stop on the private Kitakyushu Railway's new western extension from Yamamoto to Imari. The name became Matsuura Onsen in 1936, then reverted to Sari when Japan nationalised the line on 1 October 1937 and folded it into the Chikuhi Line. The station was closed on 10 August 1941 amid wartime austerity and reopened on 1 June 1946. Parcel handling ended in 1970, after which the station was unstaffed. Control passed to JR Kyushu at privatisation on 1 April 1987. The wooden station building was replaced by a waiting room called Akizakura-kan, whose signboard calligraphy was provided by author Morimura Seiichi.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The trackside waiting room "Akizakura-kan" bears a signboard whose calligraphy was written by novelist Morimura Seiichi.