Hizen-Kubo

Weekday departures: 18/day · Sat & holiday departures: 18/day

First / last train (weekday): 5:46 / 21:07

Busiest hour: 6:00–7:00 (2)

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Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map.

• JR Chikuhi Line: Yamamoto (Saga) ⇄ Nishi-Ouchi

Hizen-Kubo Station opened on 1 March 1935 as "Banzuīn Station" (幡随院駅) when the private Kitakyushu Railway extended its Chikuhi Line westward from Yamamoto to Imari. The Kitakyushu Railway was nationalised on 1 October 1937, at which point Japanese Government Railways renamed the station Hizen-Kubo and designated the line part of the Chikuhi Line. Freight handling ended on 1 October 1962, and parcel handling on 31 March 1971, when the station was unstaffed. At the JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987 control passed to JR Kyushu. The wooden station building was largely demolished after unstaffing and was eventually replaced by a small structure named "Sakura-kan" housing a waiting area and toilets.

The station was originally named after Banzuīn Chōbei, the famed Edo-period machi-yakko commoner-leader whose birthplace lies near the station; a stone marker reading "Banzuīn Chōbei birthplace" stands in Chōbei Park about four minutes' walk away.