Yakuin Station

Yakuin Station (薬院駅) is a passenger railway station located in Chūō-ku, Fukuoka. The above ground portion is operated by the private transportation company Nishi-Nippon Railroad (NNR), and has station number T02, and the underground portion is operated by the Fukuoka City Subway The subway station's symbol mark is a mortar and pestle, because 薬院 means medicinal plant botanical garden in Japanese.

Lines
The station is served by the Nishitetsu Tenjin Ōmuta Line and is 0.8 kilometers from the starting point of the line at Nishitetsu Fukuoka (Tenjin) Station. It is also served by the subway Nanakuma Line and is 10.8 kilometers form the terminus of that line at Hashimoto.

Station layout
The above ground station consists of two elevated opposed side platforms with the station building underneath. The subway station is one-floor underground, with an island platform on the second-floor underneath.

History
The station was opened on 1 June 1927 as a station on the Kyushu Railway. The subway staton opened on 3 February 2005.

Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2022, the NNR station was used by 35,012 passengers daily. During the same period, the Fukuoka Subway portion of the station was used by 9,528 passengers daily.