Higo-Ikura

Weekday departures: 74/day · Sat & holiday departures: 74/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:53 / 24:03 (00:03 next day)

Busiest hour: 6:00–7:00 (5)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.

• Kagoshima Main Line: Tamana ⇄ Konoha

Higo-Ikura opened on 3 April 1935 as an additional stop on the existing Kagoshima Main Line track, its original station building standing at what is today the Kumamoto-side end of the site. Freight handling ended on 1 October 1961, station services were outsourced from 20 February 1971 and parcel handling ceased on 1 February 1984 before the station was made unstaffed on 14 March 1985. JR Kyushu inherited the station on 1 April 1987. The station was reduced to simple agency operation on 1 April 2010. The 1942 wooden station building was replaced when a new building was completed alongside it on 3 March 2012, and SUGOCA IC-card acceptance began on 1 December 2012.

When the station opened in 1935, Japanese Government Railways already had an Ikura Station on the Hakubi Line, written with different kanji but read the same way — to avoid confusion, the new station was prefixed with "Higo", the old provincial name for present-day Kumamoto.