Train service
Weekday departures: 139/day · Sat & holiday departures: 139/day
First / last train (weekday): 5:17 / 23:45
Busiest hour: 8:00–9:00 (8)
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0:00 ─ 23:00
Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map.
Location
History
The station opened on 1 October 1937 as Yanagawa Station on the Kyushu Railway. It was redesignated Kyū-Tetsu Yanagawa on 1 July 1939, and then Nishitetsu Yanagawa on 22 September 1942 when Nishi-Nippon Railroad was formed from a wartime merger. A platform footbridge was added in December 1965, and the station was renamed to its present-day spelling Yanagawa on 1 March 1971. A new station building opened on 23 April 1981, automatic ticket gates were introduced on 1 October 1987, and the nimoca IC card became valid on 18 May 2008. A new elevated bridge-over station building and east entrance opened on 21 March 2015, and station numbering (T39) was applied on 1 February 2017.
Notes
Of all intermediate stops on the Tenjin Ōmuta Line between Nishitetsu Kurume and Ōmuta, Nishitetsu Yanagawa is the only one whose daily ridership exceeds 10,000 passengers.
Sources
Last updated: 2026-05-22