Shimosone

Weekday departures: 125/day · Sat & holiday departures: 125/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:25 / 24:13 (00:13 next day)

Busiest hour: 8:00–9:00 (10)

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 Nippo Line: Abeyamakoen ⇄ Kusami

Shimosone Station is a JR Kyushu station on the Nippō Main Line in Kokuraminami-ku, Kitakyushu, 11.6 km from the line's start at Kokura. The Kyushu Railway opened it as Sone Station (曽根駅) on 25 October 1895; the railway was nationalized in 1907, and the station was renamed Shimosone on 1 May 1945. On 4 May 1946 the depot was devastated by an explosion at an adjacent former Imperial Japanese Army Air Service ammunition dump. The current bridge-style station building opened on 28 April 1981, and JR Kyushu inherited the station at privatization on 1 April 1987. Since 1 July 2023 northbound rapid services have stopped at the station, and direct JR Kyushu operation resumed on 1 October 2023.

On 4 May 1946 bombs stockpiled at the former Imperial Japanese Army Air Service Fukuoka branch, reached by a 1,400 m dedicated line from Shimosone, began to explode and kept exploding for about a day and a night; every window in the station was shattered and its walls came down, leaving the building almost totally destroyed. Because the passenger trains and the powder-laden freight trains were evacuated at once, nobody at the station was hurt, but the dedicated line's rails were left buckled and three freight wagons standing on it were blown to pieces.