Kitano (Fukuoka)

Weekday departures: 79/day · Sat & holiday departures: 75/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:49 / 23:55

Busiest hour: 6:00–7:00 (7)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.

• Amagi Railway Amagi Line: Ohki ⇄ Kogan'chaya

Kitano Station opened on 15 October 1915 as a station on the Mitsui Electric Tramway in Imayama, Kitano-machi, Kurume, Fukuoka Prefecture — station number A08. The line was extended from here to Amagi on 8 December 1921. After the Mitsui Electric Tramway merged with Kyūshū Railway on 30 June 1924, with Kyūshū Electric Tramway on 19 September 1942, and the new parent was renamed Nishi-Nippon Railway (Nishitetsu) three days later, the station became a Nishitetsu Amagi Line station. The station building was rebuilt in 1963; short-turning and overnight stabling were abolished in 2001. The nimoca IC card came into service on 18 May 2008, station numbering was introduced on 1 February 2017, and from the 23 March 2019 timetable revision the final Amagi-bound (down) service terminates here on both weekdays and weekends/holidays — the consist then immediately turns back as the final Hanabatake-bound (up) service without overnight stabling, bringing short-turning back at this station.

Kitano lies in the centre of the former Kitano-chō. The station has two facing platforms linked by an in-station level crossing and is staffed all day; the signalling allows trains to depart in either direction from either track. Until nimoca was introduced, the platform opposite the station building had a temporary exit-only fare gate for season-ticket holders, open only for the train arriving around 08:25 — a concession to Mii Chūō High School students. The "Kitano-chō shishi", published by the former Kitano town of Mii District, records that when the Mitsui Electric Tramway first opened there were two further stops, Myōzenji-mae and Naka-Kitano, between Kitano and Jūrōmaru Station, which is presumed to have stood near the present Koga-jaya Station.