Fukuoka Station
Lines. Fukuoka Station is served by the Ainokaze Toyama Railway Line and is 14.0 kilometres from the starting point of the line at . Station layout. Fukuoka Station has one side platform and one island platform connected by a footbridge. The station is staffed. History. Fukuoka Station opened on 1 November 1898 as a station on the Japanese Government Railway (JGR). It was privatized on 1 April 1984, becoming a station on JR West. From 14 March 2015, with the opening of the Hokuriku Shinkansen extension from to , local passenger operations over sections of the Hokuriku Main Line running  roughly parallel to the new shinkansen line were reassigned to different third-sector railway operating companies. From this date, Fukuoka Station was transferred to the ownership of the third-sector operating company Ainokaze Toyama Railway. Passenger statistics. In fiscal 2015, the station was used by an average of 1,041 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).