Kawara

Weekday departures: 49/day · Sat & holiday departures: 49/day

First / last departure (weekday): 6:01 / 23:40

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (4)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.

• JR Hitahikosan Line: Saidosho ⇄ Ipponmatsu

Kawara Station opened on 1 April 1915 as Kami-Kawara Station (上香春駅) on the private Kokura Railway. The Kokura Railway was nationalised on 1 May 1943, becoming part of the first-generation Soeda Line, and the station was renamed Kawara at the same time. The 1960 line restructuring made the Kawara-Soeda section the second-generation Soeda Line and the Jōno-Gotōji-Yoake route the Hitahikosan Line. Parcel handling ended in February 1984, the station was destaffed two weeks later, and freight handling ended in November 1986. With the 1 April 1987 privatisation of JNR the station passed to JR Kyushu. The original station building burned down on 10 September 1995 and a replacement opened in March 1996. The station code is JI11.

The Asano (later Nippon) Cement plant just west of the station began operating in June 1935 and was linked to it by a dedicated spur, on which D51 steam and DD51 diesel locomotives hauled bulk-cement wagons — to the company's Moji plant beside Kuzuha Station from August 1951 and to Higashi-Kokura from November 1955. Freight over the spur ended in October 1986, and the Kawara plant itself closed in 2004.