History
Higashi-Taku Station opened on 14 December 1903 as Befu Station, an intermediate stop on the Kyushu Railway's eastward extension of the Karatsu line from Azamibaru to Kubota. After Kyushu Railway was nationalised on 1 July 1907 control passed to Japanese Government Railways, and the route was formally designated the Karatsu Line on 12 October 1909. The station was renamed Higashi-Taku on 1 June 1911. From 1940 a small siding handled coal shipped down by aerial cableway from the nearby Ogi mine. Freight and parcel handling ended in 1963 and 1973 respectively, the station went unstaffed, and JR Kyushu took over at the 1987 privatisation. The original timber building was demolished in 1998 and replaced in 2001 by a community-run facility, the Higashi-Taku Kōryū Plaza.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
What looks like the station building is actually a 2001 community hall called the Higashi-Taku Kōryū Plaza; it carries no station name plate and is not officially a station building, leaving the platform without a true ekisha.