Hakata

Weekday departures: 1,030/day+ · Sat & holiday departures: 927/day+

First / last train (weekday): 5:01 / 24:16

Busiest hour: 8:00–9:00 (94)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map. Some lines at this station are not yet in our schedule data, so these counts are a minimum.

• Kagoshima Main Line: Yoshizuka ⇄ Takeshita
• San'yō Shinkansen: Kokura
• Fukuoka City Subway Kūkō Line: Gion (Fukuoka) ⇄ Higashi-Hie
• Fukuoka City Subway Nanakuma Line: Kushida Shrine

Hakata Station opened on 11 December 1889 as the initial terminus of the Kyushu Railway, the first railway built in Kyushu, sited about 600 m northwest of its present location at what is now Dekimachi Park. Nationalisation followed in 1907. The station was rebuilt at its current location and elevated above street level on 1 December 1963, then connected to the San'yō Shinkansen on 10 March 1975. The Fukuoka City Subway arrived in stages between 1983 and 1985. A complete reconstruction of the station building as JR Hakata City opened on 3 March 2011, ahead of the Kyushu Shinkansen through-service on 12 March. The Nanakuma Line extension to Hakata opened on 27 March 2023.

The decision to keep the JR station name as "Hakata" rather than the city's chosen name "Fukuoka" was a deliberate 1889 compromise; it later opened the door for Nishitetsu to claim the city name for its own central terminus at Tenjin.