Tanushimaru

Weekday departures: 49/day · Sat & holiday departures: 49/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:58 / 23:51

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (4)

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 Kyudai Line: Chikugo-Yoshii ⇄ Chikugo Kusano

Tanushimaru Station opened on 24 December 1928, the same day Japanese Government Railways inaugurated the first Kurume–Chikugo-Yoshii section of the Kyūdai Main Line. Control passed to JR Kyushu when Japanese National Railways was privatised on 1 April 1987. Two side platforms serve two tracks at grade, with a siding off track 1 and a footbridge linking the platforms. The station shares its building with the local tourism association, which also operates the staffed ticket window on a kan'i itaku basis. A section of the building is shaped to resemble the head and beak of a kappa, the aquatic yōkai with which Tanushimaru is locally associated. The station is in Kurume, Fukuoka Prefecture, 20.8 km from the line's start at Kurume.

Part of the station building is sculpted to resemble the head of a kappa — the river yōkai of local folklore — making the entrance unmistakably Tanushimaru's own.