Nishi-Soeda

Weekday departures: 31/day · Sat & holiday departures: 32/day

First / last train (weekday): 5:57 / 22:47

Busiest hour: 19:00–20:00 (3)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

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

• 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 a colliery slag heap until coal mining ended; the cleared land was redeveloped into a housing estate with a supermarket, community hall and sports facilities, leaving little visible trace of the station's original role shipping coal.