Buzen-Shoe

Known weekday departures: 61/day · Known Sat & holiday departures: 61/day

First / last known departure (weekday): 5:21 / 24:16 (00:16 next day)

Busiest hour (known departures): 18:00–19:00 (6)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are the departures known from the timetable data, not a count of today's actual service.

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026 (retrieved in spring/summer 2026).

• JR Nippo Line: Shiida ⇄ Unoshima

The station opened on 25 September 1897 as Shōe Station on the private Hōshū Railway when the line between Yukuhashi and Yanagigaura was inaugurated. The Hōshū Railway was absorbed by the Kyushu Railway in 1901, which was itself nationalised in 1907. The route was redesignated the Hōshū Main Line on 12 October 1909 and renamed the Nippō Main Line on 15 December 1923. The station was renamed Buzen-Shōe on 1 May 1945 to avoid confusion with Matsue Station on the San'in Main Line, which shared the same kanji but a different reading. Freight handling ended on 1 October 1961, parcel handling on 1 February 1984, and at the 1 April 1987 JNR privatisation control passed to JR Kyushu.

The station's wooden building, completed in 1932, carries a name-board brushed on a camphor-wood plaque by a calligrapher from the local Buzen area; the plaque went up in December 2003 and, after it had faded past legibility, was replaced in August 2023 with another one brushed by a different local calligrapher.