History
Kurume-Kōkōmae Station opened on 14 March 2009 as a new stop on the Kyūdai Main Line between Kurume and Minami-Kurume. The proposal originated with a 1996 recommendation from the JR Kyūdai Line revitalisation council for a station tentatively called "Kurume-Kōkō-Minami", and was formalised on 15 June 2007 when Kurume City, JR Kyushu, and the local promotion society signed a memorandum at City Hall. The station was the first on the JR Kyushu network — and only the second on JR as a whole — to take its name from a public high school. ICカード SUGOCA service began on 1 December 2012, the ticket office closed on 11 March 2022, and the station was unstaffed from the following day's timetable change.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The station is the first on the JR Kyushu network and only the second across JR overall to bear a public high school's name in its title; locals typically shorten it to just "Kōkōmae".