Dazaifu

Weekday departures: 78/day · Sat & holiday departures: 73/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:26 / 23:53

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (5)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.

• Nishitetsu Dazaifu Line: Gojo (Fukuoka)

Dazaifu Station opened on 28 March 1902 as a halt of the Dazaifu Horse Tramway (later Dazaifu Kidō), making it the oldest surviving station on the present-day Nishitetsu network. Horse traction was replaced by steam in January 1913, and the Dazaifu-to-Futsukaichi (now Nishitetsu-Futsukaichi) section was re-gauged to 1,435 mm and electrified in September 1927. The line was absorbed by the second Kyushu Railway in August 1934 to become the Dazaifu Line, and passed to Nishi-Nippon Railroad (Nishitetsu) in the 1942 amalgamation that created that company. The station building was rebuilt in January 1952, replaced again with the current structure in 1991, and refurbished on 1 January 2019 with an exterior designed to evoke Dazaifu Tenmangū shrine. As the line's terminus, Dazaifu serves as the closest station to the famous shrine.

Counting from its forerunner the Dazaifu Horse Tramway, this is the oldest station still in service anywhere on the Nishitetsu network.