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Nogata (Fukuoka)

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Nogata (Fukuoka)
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Timetable information

Known weekday departures: 130/day · Known Sat & holiday departures: 131/day

First / last known departure (weekday): 5:10 / 23:25

Busiest hour (known departures): 6:00–7:00 (10)


Figures are the departures known from the timetable data, not a count of today's actual service.

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026 to 11 May 2026 (latest retrieval in spring/summer 2026): the timetables behind these figures were retrieved on different dates.

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Location

History

Nōgata Station opened on 30 August 1891, built by the Chikuho Kogyo Railway as the southern terminus of its initial Wakamatsu - Nōgata line. From 1899 the station was massively expanded into a coal-classification yard for the Chikuho coalfield, with thirteen sorting tracks dispatching cars to Wakamatsu, Nishi-Yahata and Kami-Tobata day and night. A new station building was completed in March 1910. Postwar energy transition shrank coal traffic, and freight handling ended on 1 February 1984. JR Kyushu took over on 1 April 1987 and electrification reached the station in 2001. The Ita Line, which originates at Nōgata, was transferred to the third-sector Heisei Chikuhō Railway on 1 October 1989.

Notes

The Heisei Chikuhō Railway portion of the station carried the unusual sponsored name "Fujimoto Kogyo studiocanada Nogata Station" from 1 April 2009 until naming-rights expiry in 2022.

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