Kagoshima-Chuo

Weekday departures: 151/day · Sat & holiday departures: 151/day

First / last departure (weekday): 4:46 / 23:35

Busiest hour: 18:00–19:00 (14)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 17 April 2026 to 2 May 2026: the timetables behind these figures were retrieved on different dates.

• Kyushu Shinkansen: Sendai (Kagoshima)
• Ibusuki Makurazaki Line: Korimoto (JR Kyushu)
• Kagoshima Main Line: Kagoshima ⇄ Hiroki

The station opened on 11 October 1913 as Take Station, an intermediate stop on the Higashi-Ichiki–Kagoshima section of the Sendai Line that opened that day, and was renamed Nishi-Kagoshima Station on 17 October 1927 when the Sendai Main Line was incorporated into the Kagoshima Main Line. The original 1913 station building was destroyed in air raids during World War II. When the Kyushu Shinkansen partially opened from Shin-Yatsushiro to here on 13 March 2004, the station was renamed Kagoshima-Chūō. The conventional-line platforms are at grade with three island platforms and six tracks, while the Shinkansen platforms sit on an elevated third level at right angles, with two islands and four tracks. As Japan's southernmost Shinkansen terminus, it is also the start of through services to Shin-Ōsaka via the Mizuho and Sakura.

Although the Kagoshima Main Line officially terminates one stop further on at Kagoshima Station, the line's designation reached this station on 17 October 1927, when the Sendai Main Line was absorbed into the Kagoshima Main Line and Take Station was renamed Nishi-Kagoshima.