Taragi

Weekday departures: 22/day · Sat & holiday departures: 24/day

First / last departure (weekday): 6:15 / 20:45

Busiest hour: 6:00–7:00 (2)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Sample service dates: weekday 24 September 2026; Saturday 26 September 2026. Extra operating dates are not included.

Timetable data as of 25 September 2026.

• Yunomae Line: Taragi-Shorenji ⇄ Koritsubyoinmae

Taragi Station opened on 30 March 1924 as a Ministry of Railways station. It became a Japanese National Railways station on 1 June 1949. Freight handling ended on 1 June 1980, and baggage handling ended on 1 February 1984. It was inherited by Kyushu Railway Company (JR Kyushu) at the division and privatization of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987, and became a Kuma River Railway station with the third-sector conversion of 1 October 1989. At the end of January 1999 the station moved to a prefabricated temporary building for reconstruction and the old station building was demolished; on 31 March that year the rebuilt station building, relocated about 20 meters east of the old station, came into use. On 1 July 2010, "Blue Train Taragi" opened on the site of the former marshalling yard in front of the station, and commemorative platform tickets were sold there.

Taragi Station is a ground-level station with one side platform serving one track, and it is the central station of Taragi-machi. It formerly had two opposed platforms serving two tracks that allowed trains to pass each other, and traces of the old platform remained on the far side of the level crossing (toward Hitoyoshi), but when "Blue Train Taragi" was established, the former station site (on the north side) was developed and JNR Series 14 passenger cars were installed. For this facility, Taragi-machi purchased Series 14 cars that had run as the sleeper limited express "Hayabusa" until March 2009; late at night on 9 March 2010, three cars in total — two B-class sleeper cars (Suhanefu 14-3 and Ohane 15-6) and one B-class single-occupancy compartment car "Solo" (Ohane 15-2003) — were transported overland, and the facility opened as a train hotel on 1 July that year.