Kawashiri

Kumamoto – Uto: reduced service (fewer trains than the timetable) from 2 August 2026 until 10 October 2026 (normal timetable planned; operator forecast, not yet confirmed) Full details: Kagoshima Main Line →

Weekday departures: 119/day · Sat & holiday departures: 119/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:40 / 23:27

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (11)

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 2 May 2026.

• Kagoshima Main Line: Nishi-Kumamoto ⇄ Tomiai

Kawashiri Station opened on 11 August 1894 as a Kyushu Railway stop in what is now the Minami-ku ward of Kumamoto. Nationalisation followed on 1 July 1907. The station was damaged in an air raid on 12 August 1945, and freight handling ceased on 1 April 1967. JR Kyushu took it over at the 1987 JNR privatisation. The second-generation station building, rebuilt in December 1917, remains in use. SUGOCA service began on 1 December 2012, and the layout was simplified in March 2019 when the former platform 2 was removed and its tracks taken up, leaving two side platforms. On 1 October 2023 the station was converted from an outsourced operation to a directly managed JR Kyushu facility.

The station was used as a filming location for the 2011 film I Wish (Kiseki), directed by Hirokazu Koreeda.