History
Dan Station originated in a petition submitted on 11 September 1929 by neighbouring municipalities to the Moji Railway Bureau, asking for an intermediate stop between Yatsushiro and Sakamoto on the Hisatsu Line. The railway minister approved the request on 29 October 1930, and the station opened unstaffed on 1 April 1931. Staff were assigned on 1 April 1940. The northbound main-line track was completed on 20 July 1956, and that same year a stationmaster was appointed and Dan became independent of Yatsushiro. The building was rebuilt in 1977, and after electronic block devices arrived on 1 November 1986 the station became unstaffed and a track was lifted. The 1 April 1987 privatisation passed it to JR Kyushu; the building was demolished on 1 January 1988.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
After the station building was removed in 1988, passengers must cross the trace of the demolished outbound track to reach the platform from the entrance — the wooden waiting room left on the platform is now the station's only structure.