Takanabe

Weekday departures: 74/day · Sat & holiday departures: 75/day

First / last train (weekday): 5:47 / 23:11

Busiest hour: 6:00–7:00 (7)

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

• JR Nippō Line: Kawaminami ⇄ Hyūga-Shintomi

Takanabe Station opened on 11 September 1920 as the new northern terminus of a Japanese Government Railways extension from Jirogabyū (now Hyūga-Sumiyoshi). It became a through station on 11 June 1921 with the next extension to Mimitsu, and on 15 December 1923 the entire Kokura-Miyakonojō stretch was redesignated as the Nippō Main Line. The original station building burned during an air raid on 16 July 1945 and the Komaru River bridge collapsed; the bridge was restored that month and the station rebuilt in 1947. Freight and baggage ended in 1985, and JR Kyushu inherited the station in 1987. A renovation as the "Takanabe Station Interchange Hub" was completed in March 2025.

The 1947 timber station building survives in service, and platform signs still bear the car-position markings of the discontinued limited expresses "Suisei" and "Fuji".