Kyuragi

Known weekday departures: 27/day · Known Sat & holiday departures: 36/day

First / last known departure (weekday): 5:44 / 23:22

Busiest hour (known departures): 9:00–10:00 (2)

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 Karatsu Line: Iwaya (Saga) ⇄ Taku

Kyūragi Station opened on 13 June 1899 as the eastern terminus of the Karatsu Kōgyō Railway's extension from Yamamoto, and became a through-station six months later when the track was extended east to Azamibaru (now Taku). The operator, renamed the Karatsu Railway, merged with the Kyushu Railway in 1902. After the line's 1909 designation as the Karatsu Line, the station became a contracted operation in 1971 and fully unstaffed in 1983. Control passed to JR Kyushu on 1 April 1987. The current timber station building dates from 1930, and a gallery was added in 1995. The name is often cited as one of Japan's hard-to-read station names.

An 1899 brick water tower, dating from the line's earliest steam-locomotive era, still stands almost intact beside the platform; the station also served as a location for Naoto Takenaka's 1997 film Tokyo Biyori.