Mukainoharu

History

Mukainoharu Station opened on 30 October 1915 on the private Daito Railway, with its name originally read "Mukainohara." The Daito Railway was absorbed into Japanese Government Railways on 1 December 1922, on which date the reading was changed to "Mukainoharu," although the written characters were unchanged. With the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR Kyushu, and the present steel-frame station building dates from 2002. SUGOCA IC card use began on 1 December 2012. After more than two decades as an outsourced station, day-to-day operations were brought back in-house by JR Kyushu itself on 1 October 2023.

History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.

Notes

The station's written name has stayed identical since 1915, but the official reading was switched from "Mukainohara" to "Mukainoharu" on the day the line was nationalised in 1922.