Kokura

Weekday departures: 564/day+ · Sat & holiday departures: 567/day+

First / last train (weekday): 4:51 / 24:31

Busiest hour: 8:00–9:00 (40)

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Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map. Some lines at this station are not yet in our schedule data, so these counts are a minimum.

• Kagoshima Main Line: Moji ⇄ Nishi-Kokura
• JR Nippō Line: Nishi-Kokura
• San'yō Shinkansen: Shin-Shimonoseki ⇄ Hakata

Kokura Station opened on 1 April 1891 in front of Kokura Castle, built by the private Kyushu Tetsudo company. It was brought under state control on 1 July 1907 and rebuilt 700 metres east of the original site on 1 March 1958; the former location is today commemorated by the name Nishi-Kokura ("West Kokura"). San'yō Shinkansen services began calling on 10 March 1975. At Japanese National Railways privatisation on 1 April 1987 the conventional lines passed to JR Kyushu while the shinkansen platforms came under JR West. A 1990s expansion culminated on 1 April 1998 with the Kitakyushu Monorail extension into the rebuilt station building, making Kokura the only Japanese station where a monorail terminates inside the JR concourse.

Kokura is the only railway station in Japan where a monorail enters the JR station building — the Kitakyushu Monorail's terminus was built into the station's third floor during the 1998 reconstruction.