Kami-Tanoura

Yatsushiro – Higo Tanoura: suspended from 28 July 2026 Check the operator for replacement transport stops and times. Full details: Hisatsu Orange Railway →

Weekday departures: 23/day · Sat & holiday departures: 23/day

First / last departure (weekday): 6:09 / 21:58

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (3)

0:00 ─ 23:00

These are typical departures in the timetable data (see the date below), not a live count: they may include services affected by the notice above.

Timetable data as of 12 May 2026.

• Hisatsu Orange Railway: Higo-Futami ⇄ Tanoura-otachimisakikoen

Kami Tanoura Station opened on 10 October 1952 as an intermediate stop on Japanese National Railways' Kagoshima Main Line, in what is now the town of Ashikita, Kumamoto Prefecture. It became a contract-staffed station on 1 April 1962 and was made unstaffed on 30 September 1970 with the introduction of CTC, after which staff were sent from Yatsushiro Station to work it only from early July to the end of August each year, for beachgoers heading to neighbouring Koganegahama Beach. The station passed to JR Kyushu at privatisation on 1 April 1987; the last day of that seasonal summer staffing was 31 August 1989, and in April 1990 the wooden station building was demolished and replaced on its site by a log-cabin-style bicycle shelter, leaving the station unstaffed all year. On 13 March 2004 — the day the partial Kyushu Shinkansen opened — the parallel Yatsushiro–Sendai section of the Kagoshima Main Line was transferred to the third-sector Hisatsu Orange Railway, taking the station with it.

The station's log-cabin building is not a station building at all but a bicycle shelter built in 1990 on the footprint of the original wooden depot — passers-by routinely mistake it for the depot itself.