Ita Line

The Ita Line (伊田線, Ita-sen) is a 16.1 km railway line owned by the third-sector company Heisei Chikuhō Railway.

The line runs north from Tagawa to Nōgata, all within Fukuoka Prefecture.

The entire Chikuhō Railway system was merged in 1897 with Kyushu Railway, where the line was extended to Ita Station (now Tagawa-Ita Station) in 1899.

Even though the Ita Line was widened to a double-track railway in 1911, ridership suffered with the decline of the Chikuhō coal mine.

Even after privatization, the Japan Freight Railway Company still ran trains from Kanada north to Mojiko Station in Kitakyushu, transporting cement from a Mitsui Tankō plant near Kanada Station.