Kami-Honami

Weekday departures: 16/day · Sat & holiday departures: 18/day

First / last train (weekday): 6:24 / 22:06

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (2)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

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

• Chikuho Main Line: Keisen ⇄ Chikuzen Uchino

Japanese Government Railways opened Kami-Honami Station on 15 July 1928 as an intermediate stop on the then Nagao Line when it extended the line from Nagao (now Keisen) to a new southern terminus at Chikuzen-Uchino, in the city of Iizuka, Fukuoka Prefecture. The station's siting itself was a late addition triggered by the founding of Kaho Mining, which used a dedicated freight branch from the platform to ship coal. On 7 December 1929 the Nagao Line was merged into the Chikuho Main Line. Freight ended in 1961, parcels in 1984 alongside un-staffing, and JR Kyushu took over in April 1987. The combined station / chamber-of-commerce building was rebuilt in March 1986. Station number JG02 was added on 28 September 2018.

The reason there is a station here at all is that Kaho Mining was incorporated just as the Nagao-Chikuzen Uchino extension was being surveyed in 1926; the company petitioned for a branch siding for coal, and the railway agreed to add Kami-Honami as a branching point in 1927.