Nishi-Soeda

Known weekday departures: 31/day · Known Sat & holiday departures: 32/day

First / last known departure (weekday): 5:57 / 22:47

Busiest hour (known departures): 19:00–20:00 (3)

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 Hitahikosan Line: Buzen-Kawasaki ⇄ Soeda

Nishi-Soeda Station opened on 21 December 1903 as the original Soeda Station on the Kyushu Railway, terminus of a section pushed out from Kawasaki (now Buzen-Kawasaki). A short freight branch toward Shō opened in October 1904, and the railway was nationalised in 1907. The current name was adopted on 1 August 1942. Line reshuffling brought the station onto the Hitahikosan Line on 1 April 1960. Staff were removed in 1972 and freight handling ended in 1980. JR Kyushu took over at privatisation in 1987, and the present cylindrical-entrance station building was completed in 1994.

The east side of the station was occupied by a colliery slag heap that remained there long after the mine closed; the land was later cleared and redeveloped into a new district of housing, a supermarket and public cultural and sports facilities, leaving little visible trace of the station's original role shipping coal.