History
Taku Station opened on 25 December 1899 as Azamibaru, the new eastern terminus of the Karatsu Kogyo Railway's track from Miyoken (now Nishi-Karatsu) via Kyūragi. On 23 February 1902 the operator, by then renamed the Karatsu Railway, merged with the private Kyushu Railway, which carried out the next phase of expansion. It became a through-station on 14 December 1903 when the line was extended to Kubota. Following the nationalisation of the Kyushu Railway on 1 July 1907 and the formal designation of the Karatsu Line in 1909, the station was renamed Taku on 1 April 1934. Control passed to JR Kyushu at privatisation on 1 April 1987. In January 2008 the station moved to a new elevated structure as part of a local land-readjustment project, and was fully de-staffed in March 2020.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Just east of the platform stands a disused concrete coal hopper from the Mitsubishi Kogayama mine, which closed in 1968 — a reminder that this rural Saga stop once served as a colliery shipping point.