Minami Fukuoka

Weekday departures: 185/day · Sat & holiday departures: 185/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:26 / 23:03

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (14)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.

• Kagoshima Main Line: Sasabaru ⇄ Kasuga (Fukuoka)

Minami-Fukuoka Station opened on 11 December 1889 as Zasshonokuma Station, built by the private Kyushu Railway during the first phase of its network construction. The Kyushu Railway was nationalised on 1 July 1907 and the line was designated the Kagoshima Main Line in November 1909. The Minami-Fukuoka train yard, today the largest in the JR Kyushu area, opened on 14 October 1960; the line was electrified the following year. The station was renamed Minami-Fukuoka on 1 November 1966 after passenger confusion with a same-named stop on the Tenjin Ōmuta Line. It passed to JR Kyushu on 1 April 1987, burned down in a 1994 arson attack, and was rebuilt in July 1999.

The nine-storey station building houses shops on its first and second floors and rental apartments on floors three to nine, with the ticket gates on the second floor.