History
Takanabe Station opened on 11 September 1920 as the new northern terminus of a Japanese Government Railways extension from Jirogabyū (now Hyūga-Sumiyoshi). It became a through station on 11 June 1921 with the next extension to Mimitsu, and on 15 December 1923 the entire Kokura-Miyakonojō stretch was redesignated as the Nippō Main Line. The original station building burned during an air raid on 16 July 1945 and the Komaru River bridge collapsed; the bridge was restored that month and the station rebuilt in 1947. Freight and baggage ended in 1985, and JR Kyushu inherited the station in 1987. A renovation as the "Takanabe Station Interchange Hub" was completed in March 2025.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The 1947 timber station building survives in service, and platform signs still bear the car-position markings of the discontinued limited expresses "Suisei" and "Fuji".