Hakata

Weekday departures: 1,038/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 930/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:01 / 24:40 (00:40 next day)

Busiest hour in the available data: 8:00–9:00 (94)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 17 April 2026 to 26 June 2026: the timetables behind these figures were retrieved on different dates.

The timetable data is incomplete for some or all lines at this station, so the weekday and Sat & holiday figures are departures in the available timetable data, not totals.

Lines where the timetable data is complete: Kagoshima Main Line, San'yo Shinkansen, Fukuoka City Subway Kuko Line, Kyushu Shinkansen, Fukuoka City Subway Nanakuma Line

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• Hakata-Minami Line: no timetable data

• Kagoshima Main Line: Yoshizuka ⇄ Takeshita
• San'yo Shinkansen: Kokura
• Fukuoka City Subway Kuko Line: Gion (Fukuoka) ⇄ Higashi-Hie
• Fukuoka City Subway Nanakuma Line: Kushida Shrine

Hakata Station opened on 11 December 1889 as the initial terminus of the Kyushu Railway, the first railway built in Kyushu, sited about 600 m northwest of its present location at what is now Dekimachi Park. Nationalisation followed in 1907. The station was rebuilt at its current location and elevated above street level on 1 December 1963, then connected to the San'yō Shinkansen on 10 March 1975. The Fukuoka City Subway arrived in stages between 1983 and 1985. A complete reconstruction of the station building as JR Hakata City opened on 3 March 2011, ahead of the Kyushu Shinkansen through-service on 12 March. The Nanakuma Line extension to Hakata opened on 27 March 2023.

Naming the station "Hakata" rather than "Fukuoka" is said to have been a deliberate compromise in 1889: the newly incorporated municipality had been named Fukuoka over the rival candidate Hakata, and the Kyushu Railway's choice of "Hakata" for its station was meant to settle the dispute. Because the national railway's station kept that name, Nishitetsu was later able to claim the city name for its own central terminus at Tenjin.