History
Kami-Imari Station opened on 1 March 1935 as an intermediate stop on the private Kitakyushu Railway's new extension west from Yamamoto, the same day Imari itself opened as the line's western terminus. After the Kitakyushu Railway was nationalised on 1 October 1937, Japanese Government Railways designated the route the Chikuhi Line and took control of the station, located 24.1 km from the line's start at Yamamoto in the city of Imari, Saga Prefecture. Freight handling ended on 1 October 1970 and the stop became unstaffed on the same day. At the 1 April 1987 privatisation of JNR the station passed to JR Kyushu. Today it is a bare side platform with a single track and a shelter — no station building remains, although the outline of the demolished structure is still visible near the access path.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The park beside the station, Morinaga Park, occupies the site of the former Morinaga Milk Imari plant (originally Plant No. 8), built in 1922 after company founder Taichirō Morinaga personally donated 10,000 yen to encourage local dairy farming in Nishi-Matsuura.