Soeda

Weekday departures: 30/day · Sat & holiday departures: 30/day

First / last departure (weekday): 6:06 / 21:36

Busiest hour: 6:00–7:00 (3)

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 Hitahikosan Line: Nishi-Soeda ⇄ Kanyusha-Hikosan

Soeda Station opened on 1 April 1915 as Kami-Soeda Station, the southern terminus of the Kokura Railway's line from Higashi-Kokura. It was renamed Hikosan-guchi around 1933, and took its present name on 1 August 1942 when the Kokura Railway was nationalised; later that month, on 25 August, the Tagawa Line was extended from Nishi-Soeda through Soeda to Hikosan. The connecting Soeda Line, separated off in 1960, was abandoned in April 1985. JR Kyushu took over at JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987, and a new station building was completed in March 1988. Rail service south of Soeda has been suspended since the July 2017 Northern Kyushu floods; the gap was filled by the Hitahikosan Line BRT on 28 August 2023, whose buses use the far side of the same platform for cross-mode transfers.

The original 1942 alignment had to place the Hitahikosan Line platforms a hundred metres from the station building because the existing Soeda Line tracks and freight sidings already occupied the centre of the yard — leaving the entrance and the trains awkwardly separated until the 2023 BRT-conversion rebuild.