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)
0:00 ─ 23:00
Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.
Timetable data as of 26 April 2026.
Adjacent stations
- Kikuchi Line: Hakenomiya ⇄ Kitakumamoto
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.
Sources
- Wikipedia (English) (opens in a new tab)
- Wikipedia (日本語) (opens in a new tab)
- Photo: MK Products at Japanese Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 (opens in a new tab) · Wikimedia Commons (opens in a new tab)
Last updated: 2026-06-09