Hyuga-Maeda

Weekday departures: 16/day · Sat & holiday departures: 16/day

First / last departure (weekday): 6:10 / 22:20

Busiest hour: 6:00–7:00 (2)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.

• Kitto Line: Takaharu ⇄ Takasaki Shinden

Hyūga Maeda Station was opened by Japanese Government Railways on 1 March 1947 as an additional stop on the existing Kitto Line track, 22.2 km from Miyakonojō. Small-package freight handling ended on 20 September 1962 and baggage handling on 20 February 1971, when the station also became unstaffed. A steel-framed single-storey station building was put up in March 1978. JR Kyushu inherited the station at the 1 April 1987 privatisation of Japanese National Railways. The station today consists of a single side platform with no station building — only a waiting shelter on the platform — and is reached by a steep ramp leading up from the access road.

Although the Kitto Line track already ran past the site, Hyūga Maeda itself was only added as a post-war infill stop, opening on 1 March 1947.