Yanagawa (Fukuoka)

History

The station opened on 1 October 1937 as Yanagawa Station on the Kyushu Railway. It was redesignated Kyū-Tetsu Yanagawa on 1 July 1939, and then Nishitetsu Yanagawa on 22 September 1942 when Nishi-Nippon Railroad was formed from a wartime merger. A platform footbridge was added in December 1965, and the station was renamed to its present-day spelling Yanagawa on 1 March 1971. A new station building opened on 23 April 1981, automatic ticket gates were introduced on 1 October 1987, and the nimoca IC card became valid on 18 May 2008. A new elevated bridge-over station building and east entrance opened on 21 March 2015, and station numbering (T39) was applied on 1 February 2017.

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

Notes

Of all intermediate stops on the Tenjin Ōmuta Line between Nishitetsu Kurume and Ōmuta, Nishitetsu Yanagawa is the only one whose daily ridership exceeds 10,000 passengers.