Araki (Fukuoka)

History

Araki Station opened on 20 April 1910 as an additional stop on the existing Kagoshima Main Line, 118.8 km from the line's start at Mojiko. The station is in the city of Kurume, Fukuoka Prefecture. The station was operated by Japanese Government Railways and its successor Japanese National Railways until passing to JR Kyushu at privatisation on 1 April 1987. Today the station has two island platforms serving four tracks at grade, with a passing loop and numerous sidings to the east, beyond which run the elevated tracks of the Kyushu Shinkansen — which does not stop here. The modern concrete station building features a circular skylight, a staffed Midori no Madoguchi ticket window and a footbridge linking the platforms. Local and rapid services on the Kagoshima Main Line call at the station.

History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.

Notes

Just east of the station the Kyushu Shinkansen viaduct soars overhead, but the bullet train rushes past without a stop — Araki is one of those local stations that lives within sight of the shinkansen yet remains served only by local and rapid services on the conventional Kagoshima Main Line.