Tentoh

Weekday departures: 110/day · Sat & holiday departures: 110/day

First / last train (weekday): 5:35 / 24:03

Busiest hour: 17:00–18:00 (8)

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

• Chikuho Main Line: Iizuka ⇄ Keisen

Tentō Station opened on 12 December 1901 on the Kyushu Railway in what is now Iizuka, Fukuoka, when that company — having recently absorbed the Chikuho Railway in October 1897 — extended the existing track south from Iizuka to Nagao (today's Keisen) and made Nagao the new southern terminus. Following the Kyushu Railway's nationalisation on 1 July 1907, Japanese Government Railways took over the station. On 12 October 1909 the track north of Iizuka was designated the Chikuho Main Line while the Iizuka-to-Nagao stretch became the Nagao Line. The two were merged on 7 December 1929, after which the station became part of the Chikuho Main Line as we know it. JR Kyushu inherited Tentō at the 1 April 1987 privatisation of JNR.

The two side platforms are staggered rather than directly opposite each other, and a ramp leads from the access road to the station building entrance — a small concession to step-free access at what is otherwise an unstaffed mid-route stop on the inland Chikuho Main Line.