Kurume

Weekday departures: 257/day · Sat & holiday departures: 257/day

First / last departure (weekday): 4:51 / 23:37

Busiest hour: 11:00–12:00 (17)

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 2 May 2026: the timetables behind these figures were retrieved on different dates.

• JR Kyudai Line: Kurume-Kokomae
• Kyushu Shinkansen: Shin-Tosu ⇄ Chikugo Funagoya
• Kagoshima Main Line: Hizen Asahi ⇄ Araki (Fukuoka)

Kurume Station opened on 1 March 1890 on the Kyushu Railway, was extended south to what is now Tamana in April 1891, and was nationalised in July 1907. The Kyūdai Main Line reached Chikugo-Yoshii on 24 December 1928. The station building was destroyed in the 11 August 1945 Kurume air-raid; the Kiyonori Kikutake-designed replacement opened on 25 October 1948 — the first war-destroyed station building in Japan to be rebuilt. A two-storey reinforced-concrete successor opened on 15 December 1967. The station passed to JR Kyushu at the April 1987 privatisation; the fifth-generation overhead station building opened on 3 April 2010, and on 12 March 2011 the station joined the Kyushu Shinkansen.

Although Kurume is a Kyushu Shinkansen stop, its daily ridership is less than half that of Nishitetsu's Nishitetsu-Kurume Station two kilometres east. To tell the two apart, bus stops and local usage call this one "JR Kurume Station", shortened to "JR Eki" or simply "JR".