History
Haki Station is on JR Kyushu's Hisatsu Line in Sakamoto-machi Haki, Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture. The station opened on 21 December 1942 as a Ministry of Railways provisional halt, was staffed from 20 November 1945, and was promoted to a full station on 1 March 1947. For the 1960 Kumamoto National Sports Festival rowing competition the platform was extended by 35 m and the station building and ticket gate were renovated. The station became contract-staffed (entrusted to Nihon Kōtsū Kankōsha) on 1 April 1962, then unstaffed on 1 February 1984 when parcel handling ended, and was succeeded by JR Kyushu on 1 April 1987. The original raised-platform-height wooden station building was demolished in late 2015 and replaced by a simple shelter in March 2016. The host city Yatsushiro, according to its Wikipedia article, has the second-largest population in Kumamoto Prefecture, produces roughly 80% of Japan's igusa (tatami rush), and is also Japan's number-one producer of bansei-yū pomelos.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
Per the station article, the platform was specifically extended by 35 metres for spectators of the rowing events at the 1960 Kumamoto National Sports Festival; per the Yatsushiro article, the city's Yatsushiro Shrine "Myōken-sai" festival every November is counted as one of the three great festivals of Kyushu, alongside Nagasaki Kunchi and the Hakata Gion Yamakasa.