Timetable information
Weekday departures: 121/day · Sat & holiday departures: 121/day
First / last departure (weekday): 5:23 / 23:55
Busiest hour: 8:00–9:00 (12)
0:00 ─ 23:00
Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.
Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.
Adjacent stations
- Kagoshima Main Line: Shishibu ⇄ Fukkodaimae (Fukuoka Institute of Technology)
Location
History
Shingū-Chūō Station opened on 13 March 2010 as an infill stop on JR Kyushu's Kagoshima Main Line, becoming the only JR station within Shingū Town and serving rapidly suburbanising residential developments on both sides of the line. It is operated directly by JR Kyushu and has a Midori no Madoguchi reservation counter and automatic ticket gates. On 1 April 2023 a rooftop solar installation atop the platform shelters began generating power. The layout is two opposing side platforms with an elevated station building; there are forecourts at both the eastern and western exits, each with an elevator and an up-direction escalator, and a bus stop at the east exit.
Notes
The station name boards carry the crest of Shingū Town as their symbol. The neighbouring station now called Fukkōdai-mae used that same crest while it was named Chikuzen-Shingū, up to its renaming in 2008, two years before Shingū-Chūō opened.
Sources
- Wikipedia (English) (opens in a new tab)
- Wikipedia (日本語) (opens in a new tab)
- Photo: そらみみ · CC BY-SA 4.0 (opens in a new tab) · Wikimedia Commons (opens in a new tab)
Last updated: 2026-05-22