Sadowara

Weekday departures: 82/day · Sat & holiday departures: 83/day

First / last train (weekday): 5:59 / 23:21

Busiest hour: 6:00–7:00 (7)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

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

• JR Nippō Line: Hyūga-Shintomi ⇄ Hyuga-Sumiyoshi

The station opened on 11 September 1920 as Hirose Station on what was then the Railway Ministry's Nippō Main Line. It was renamed Sadowara — adopting the second-generation use of that name — on 1 July 1965, after the original Sadowara Station on the Tsuma Line was renamed Nishi-Sadowara a month earlier. Freight handling ended on 1 February 1984, and the connecting Tsuma Line was abolished on 1 December the same year. The station became unstaffed in November 1986. JR Kyushu inherited it at the 1 April 1987 privatisation, and a JR Freight terminal opened on 31 July 1991, becoming a truck-only off-rail station on 1 April 2006. SUGOCA service began on 14 November 2015.

A solar-panel pilot installed directly on the rails of disused Platform 1 began generating power for station operations on 8 October 2025.