Yahata

Weekday departures: 147/day · Sat & holiday departures: 150/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:06 / 24:14 (00:14 next day)

Busiest hour: 8:00–9:00 (14)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.

• Kagoshima Main Line: Space World

Yahata Station opened on 27 December 1902 as a station of the privately run Kyushu Railway. With the company's nationalisation on 1 July 1907 it passed to the Imperial Railway Agency. Freight handling ended on 1 October 1954. On 1 August 1955 the station building was rebuilt as a 'people's station' and shifted about 1 km west, changing the operating distances either side. Parcel handling ended on 1 November 1986. With JNR's privatisation on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR Kyushu. Automatic ticket gates entered service on 19 June 2000, the new station building (Yahata Ekibiru) was officially opened on 1 March 2008, and SUGOCA card use began on 1 March 2009. From 1 October 2023 the station was switched from a contracted-operations setup back to a directly JR-staffed station.

The old station building once housed Kitakyūshū's Municipal Museum of Natural History — making Yahata locally famous as 'the station with a museum'. The collection finally moved out on 3 November 2002 when the new Kitakyūshū Museum of Natural History and Human History ('Inochi no Tabi') opened.