History
Tsurusaki Station opened on 1 April 1914 as an intermediate stop on the track that Japanese Government Railways was extending south from Ōita; on the same day Kōzaki was opened further south as the new terminus. JGR had designated the route as the Hōshū Main Line on 12 October 1909, after the private Kyushu Railway from Kokura to Yanagigaura was nationalised on 1 July 1907. On 15 December 1923 the Hōshū Main Line was renamed the Nippō Main Line. With the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR Kyushu. Conversion to a remotely-managed Smart Support Station was deferred from 17 March 2018 to 1 July 2023 pending accessibility upgrades.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Despite being an outsourced JR Kyushu station, Tsurusaki retains an old wooden Western-style depot housing an enclosed waiting room, a shop and a Midori no Madoguchi ticket window.