In 2025–26, Fukuoka’s subway ran a Saturday/holiday timetable from December 30 to January 4, and Nishitetsu buses ran a “special timetable” from December 31 to January 3. On New Year’s Eve night, the subway ran 30 extra trains from 0:00 into the 2 a.m. hour on New Year’s Day, and Nishitetsu ran overnight extra trains to Dazaifu Station. This page shows the 2025–26 record. The 2026–27 services have not been announced yet (they were announced in mid-December in past years).
In short
- Getting home or going to a shrine on New Year’s Eve night: the subway ran on all lines until after 2:00 on New Year’s Day, and the Nishitetsu Tenjin Omuta Line ran all night to Dazaifu.
- Dazaifu Tenmangu on January 1–3: the Nishitetsu through express “Hatsumode-go” ran from Tenjin to Dazaifu with no change of trains.
- By bus: Nishitetsu buses ran a special timetable from December 31 to January 3, and the app’s timetable search was not usable during part of that period.
Checked with official pages on October 20, 2026 (Japan time).
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1. Trains on New Year’s Eve night in Fukuoka (2025–26 record)
On New Year’s Eve 2025, the subway ran 30 extra trains on all lines from 0:00 into the 2 a.m. hour on New Year’s Day, and the Nishitetsu Tenjin Omuta Line ran overnight extra trains to Dazaifu Station. JR Kyushu ran 2 extra trains for people coming back from the Moji Port countdown. The 2026–27 plans have not been announced.
| Line | New Year’s Eve night | Number and interval | Last train |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fukuoka City Subway | Extra trains from 0:00 into the 2 a.m. hour on New Year’s Day | 30 on all lines (20 on the Kuko and Hakozaki lines, 10 on the Nanakuma Line) | 2:29 from Meinohama, 2:30 from Fukuoka Airport |
| Nishitetsu Tenjin Omuta Line | From the last train until the first train, from each station to Dazaifu | About every 30 min between Tenjin and Dazaifu | Until before the first train |
| JR Kyushu | Extra trains from Moji Port | 2 | 2:20 from Moji Port |
Sources: Fukuoka City Transportation Bureau news release (December 18, 2025), Nishitetsu “New Year notice (Nishitetsu trains, New Year’s Eve extra trains)”, and the JR Kyushu announcement of December 5, 2025 (checked October 20, 2026).
2. New Year timetables of Fukuoka trains and buses (2025–26 record)
In 2025–26, the subway and the Nishitetsu Kaizuka Line ran a Saturday/holiday timetable from December 30 to January 4, and the JR Chikuhi Line ran a holiday timetable. The Nishitetsu Tenjin Omuta Line ran a “New Year timetable” only on January 1–3, and Nishitetsu buses ran a “special timetable” from December 31 to January 3.
| Line | Dec 28–30 | Dec 31 | Jan 1–3 | Jan 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Subway | Normal on the 28th and 29th; Saturday/holiday from the 30th | Saturday/holiday (extra trains in the early hours of New Year’s Day) | Saturday/holiday | Saturday/holiday |
| Tenjin Omuta Line | Sunday/holiday | Sunday/holiday (late-night timetable) | New Year timetable | Sunday/holiday |
| Kaizuka Line | Weekday on the 29th only, otherwise Saturday/holiday | Saturday/holiday | Saturday/holiday | Saturday/holiday |
| Nishitetsu buses | Sunday/holiday | Special timetable | Special timetable | Sunday/holiday |
The Nishitetsu bus row is for regular routes in the Fukuoka area (including limited express and express). December 28, 2025 was a Sunday, January 3 a Saturday and January 4 a Sunday. The days of the week differ in 2026–27, so the pattern may not be the same. Sources: Fukuoka City Transportation Bureau news release (December 18, 2025), and the Nishitetsu notice on New Year bus and train services (updated December 25, 2025; checked October 20, 2026).
3. Fukuoka City Subway: extra trains into the 2 a.m. hour on New Year’s Day
The subway’s New Year-crossing extra trains ran 30 times on all lines from 0:00 into the 2 a.m. hour on January 1, 2026. The last Kuko Line trains left Meinohama at 2:29 and Fukuoka Airport at 2:30. That is 20 trains on the Kuko and Hakozaki lines and 10 on the Nanakuma Line.
The last extra trains at the main stations were: from Meinohama at 2:29 (Tenjin 2:43, Hakata 2:49, arriving Fukuoka Airport 2:55); from Fukuoka Airport at 2:30 (Hakata 2:36, Tenjin 2:42, arriving Meinohama 2:55); from Kaizuka at 2:28 (change at Nakasu-Kawabata, Tenjin 2:42, arriving Meinohama 2:55); and on the Nanakuma Line from Hakata at 2:25 (Rokuhonmatsu 2:38, arriving Hashimoto 2:54).
The extra trains ran only inside the subway and did not go onto the through-running JR Chikuhi Line or Nishitetsu Kaizuka Line. If you were heading home toward Chikuzen-Maebaru or Nishitetsu Shingu in the early hours of New Year’s Day, you needed to plan separately for the leg beyond Meinohama or Kaizuka.
From December 30 to January 4 the subway ran a Saturday/holiday timetable, and on Friday, January 2 there was no “Friday Night Train” (the late-night train that runs on Friday nights). For timetable inquiries, call the Subway Customer Service Center (092-734-7800, 8:00–20:00, every day). Station-by-station times are in the Fukuoka City Transportation Bureau news release of December 18, 2025 (New Year-crossing extra trains, PDF, Japanese).
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4. Nishitetsu trains: overnight service to Dazaifu and the “Hatsumode-go”
From after the last train on December 31, 2025 until before the first train on New Year’s Day, the Nishitetsu Tenjin Omuta Line ran extra trains from each station to Dazaifu Station, about every 30 minutes between Tenjin and Dazaifu. There were 44 extra trains in all (2 express and 42 local). Between Dazaifu and Nishitetsu Kurume, Nishitetsu Yanagawa and Omuta they ran about every 60–110 minutes (the Amagi Line did not run). Some trains required a change at Nishitetsu Futsukaichi Station on the way.
On January 1–3, the through express “Hatsumode-go” (New Year shrine visit express) ran 29 times a day from Nishitetsu Fukuoka (Tenjin) to Dazaifu with no change of trains, leaving Tenjin every 30 minutes from the 9:00 hour to the 16:00 hour. It stopped at the express stops between Tenjin and Nishitetsu Futsukaichi, plus Nishitetsu Gojo and Dazaifu. Local trains between Futsukaichi and Dazaifu also ran more often on the same 3 days.
On these 3 days the Tenjin Omuta Line ran a “New Year timetable”, and the stations from Hatama to Omuta and the Amagi Line ran the same times as the Sunday/holiday timetable. The Kaizuka Line ran a weekday timetable on December 29 only, and a Saturday/holiday timetable on the other days.
The number of trains is from the Nishitetsu announcement of December 16, 2025 (PR TIMES, Japanese). The 2025–26 notices were collected on the Nishitetsu notice on New Year bus and train services (Japanese). The pages are no longer published, so the contents can be seen in archived copies: New Year timetable of Nishitetsu trains (archived December 24, 2025), New Year’s Eve overnight extra trains (archived December 10, 2025) and Dazaifu New Year shrine visit and the through express “Hatsumode-go” (archived December 26, 2025).
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5. Nishitetsu buses: special timetable from December 31 to January 3
Nishitetsu’s regular bus routes in the Fukuoka, Kitakyushu and Kurume areas ran a special timetable from December 31, 2025 to January 3, 2026, and a Sunday/holiday timetable on December 28–30 and January 4. Limited express and express buses were treated the same, with exceptions on some routes. In the Chikuho area, December 28 to January 4 all ran the Sunday/holiday timetable.
During the special timetable, the Nishitetsu app “Nishitetsu Bus Navi” showed only bus approach information (passing the stop before yours) and not times or travel time. The timetable search can be used from 2 weeks before the day of operation. If you have a particular bus in mind, check the times after the 2-week mark to be sure.
The contents can be seen in the Nishitetsu bus New Year notice (regular routes, archived December 29, 2025; Japanese).
6. JR Kyushu: extra trains from Moji Port in the early hours of New Year’s Day
In its announcement of December 5, 2025, JR Kyushu ran 2 trains on January 1, 2026 to match the return from the Moji Port Retro countdown “KANMON KANPAI”: a local train for Hakata leaving Moji Port at 0:55, and an extra train leaving Moji Port at 2:20. The announcement is the JR Kyushu announcement of December 5, 2025 (PR TIMES, Japanese).
The JR Chikuhi Line, which runs through to the subway, ran a holiday timetable from December 30 to January 4. For where to see the first sunrise of the year and how to get there, see our article on first sunrise spots in Fukuoka, Kitakyushu and Itoshima (Japanese).
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7. When the 2026–27 plans are announced
In 2025–26, the subway extra trains were announced on December 18, Nishitetsu’s New Year’s Eve extra train notice by December 10 (the timetables came later), and JR Kyushu’s Moji Port extra trains on December 5. New Year’s Eve 2026 falls on a Thursday and New Year’s Day on a Friday. This page will be rewritten with the 2026–27 times at the same URL once they are announced.
Official information checked on October 20, 2026 (Japan time). Times and fares may change.
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