Station

Kamei

亀井

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Kamei
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Timetable information

Weekday departures: 70/day · Sat & holiday departures: 78/day

First / last departure (weekday): 6:05 / 23:37

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (6)


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

Timetable data as of 26 April 2026.

Adjacent stations

Location

History

Kamei Station opened on 27 August 1913 on the Kumamoto Electric Railway Kikuchi Line, 4.6 km from the line's origin at Kami-Kumamoto. On 1 April 1949 the alignment between Fujisaki-gū-mae and Kamei was rerouted from a passage through Murozono to a new section via Kita-Kumamoto. The ground-level halt today has a single island platform and no station building, sitting near National Route 3 in Kumamoto's Kita ward. It became part of the railway's IC card environment on 1 April 2015 with the introduction of the regional Kumamon IC CARD, and station numbering (KD10) was added on 1 October 2019.

Notes

A wooden catenary pole south of Kamei Station, on the Kita-Kumamoto side, still carries painted advertising for the Taiyō Department Store, visible as of October 2025.

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