Kafuri Station

Kafuri Station is a passenger railway station located in the city Itoshima, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by JR Kyushu.

Lines

The station is served by the Chikuhi Line and is located 15.4 km from the starting point of the line at. Only local services on the Chikuhi Line stop at this station.

The station consists of an island platform serving two tracks. The station building is elevated: the automatic ticket vending machines and ticket gate being located on a bridge which leads to the platform from the access road.

The private Kitakyushu Railway had opened a track between and on 5 December 1923. By 1 April 1924, the line had been extended east to Maebaru. Kafuri was opened on the same day as an intermediate station on the new track. When the Kitakyushu Railway was nationalized on 1 October 1937, Japanese Government Railways took over control of the station and designated the line which served it as the Chikuhi Line. With the privatization of Japanese National Railways, the successor of JGR, on 1 April 1987, control of the station passed to JR Kyushu.
The station became unstaffed in 2016.

In fiscal 2020, the station was used by an average of 530 passengers daily, and it ranked 210th among the busiest stations of JR Kyushu.