Tsurusaki

Known weekday departures: 101/day · Known Sat & holiday departures: 102/day

First / last known departure (weekday): 6:21 / 23:40

Busiest hour (known departures): 8:00–9:00 (9)

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 Nippo Line: Ozai ⇄ Takajo

Tsurusaki Station opened on 1 April 1914 as an intermediate stop on the track that Japanese Government Railways was extending south from Ōita; on the same day Kōzaki was opened further south as the new terminus. JGR had designated the route as the Hōshū Main Line on 12 October 1909, after the private Kyushu Railway from Kokura to Yanagigaura was nationalised on 1 July 1907. On 15 December 1923 the Hōshū Main Line was renamed the Nippō Main Line. With the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR Kyushu. Conversion to a remotely-managed Smart Support Station was deferred from 17 March 2018 to 1 July 2023 pending accessibility upgrades.

Tsurusaki retains a wooden station building in Western style, housing an enclosed waiting room, a shop and a Midori no Madoguchi ticket window; on 1 October 2023 its operation passed from JR Kyushu Service Support to JR Kyushu itself.