Zendoji

History

Zendōji Station opened on 24 December 1928 as a Railway Ministry (state-railway) station during the first phase of the Kyūdai Main Line construction. Station operations were outsourced on 20 February 1971. Freight handling was discontinued on 15 November 1982, and parcel handling ended on 15 February 1984 along with destaffing. The station passed to JR Kyushu at the JNR breakup on 1 April 1987, and SUGOCA IC-card service began on 1 December 2012.

History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-24.

Notes

Zendōji Station houses an 800-metre-long string of prayer beads suspended inside the building, assembled in 1996 at a "Prayer for Peace Beads Festival" held by the local community to mark the 800th anniversary of the founding of Zendōji, the head temple of the Jōdo sect from which the station takes its name. Wishes written from around the country were gathered into the beads.