Sasabaru

Known weekday departures: 135/day · Known Sat & holiday departures: 135/day

First / last known departure (weekday): 5:21 / 24:22 (00:22 next day)

Busiest hour (known departures): 7:00–8:00 (15)

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).

• Kagoshima Main Line: Takeshita ⇄ Minami Fukuoka

Sasabaru Station opened on 9 March 1987 as a temporary stop on the Japanese National Railways Kagoshima Main Line in southern Fukuoka City. Just 23 days later, on 1 April 1987, JR Kyushu took over at national railway privatisation and promoted the site to a permanent station. Initially an unstaffed two-platform stop with no station building, a permanent station building was added in October the same year. The 1998 reconstruction added an underground passage and abolished the in-yard crossing. Automatic ticket gates began service on 29 January 2000, an east-side ticket gate opened on 1 March 2005, and SUGOCA IC cards came into use on 1 March 2009.

Although the station stands in the Ijiri neighbourhood, the name was already taken by Nishitetsu's Ijiri Station on the Tenjin Ōmuta Line, so the new stop was named after "Sasabaru" — a now-vanished tract of bamboo-grass moorland that once spread across the area.