Kurume

Weekday departures: 257/day · Sat & holiday departures: 257/day

First / last train (weekday): 4:51 / 23:37

Busiest hour: 11:00–12:00 (17)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

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• JR Kyūdai Line: Kurume-Kōkōmae
• Kyushu Shinkansen: Shin-Tosu ⇄ Chikugo Funagoya
• Kagoshima Main Line: Hizen Asahi ⇄ Araki (Fukuoka)

Kurume Station opened on 1 March 1890 on the Kyushu Railway, was extended south to what is now Tamana in April 1891, and was nationalised in July 1907. The Kyūdai Main Line reached Chikugo-Yoshii on 24 December 1928. The station building was destroyed in the 11 August 1945 Kurume air-raid; the Kiyonori Kikutake-designed replacement opened on 25 October 1948 — the first war-destroyed station building in Japan to be rebuilt. Kikutake designed the reinforced-concrete successor that opened on 15 December 1967. The station passed to JR Kyushu at the April 1987 privatisation; the fifth-generation elevated building opened on 3 April 2010, and on 12 March 2011 the station joined the Kyushu Shinkansen.

Although Kurume is a Kyushu Shinkansen stop, its daily ridership is less than half that of Nishitetsu's Nishitetsu-Kurume Station two kilometres east, prompting locals to abbreviate this JR-operated stop as simply "JR Eki".