Kibana

Weekday departures: 38/day · Sat & holiday departures: 38/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:35 / 22:50

Busiest hour: 8:00–9:00 (4)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.

• Nichinan Line: Minamikata (Miyazaki) ⇄ Undokoen (Miyazaki)

Kibana Station first opened on 31 October 1913 as an intermediate stop on the private Miyazaki Light Railway (later renamed the Miyazaki Railway) between Akae (now Minami-Miyazaki) and Uchiumi. When the railway ceased operations on 1 July 1962, the station closed with it. Japanese National Railways subsequently incorporated the route into the Nichinan Line and reopened the station on 8 May 1963 under the same name. It passed to JR Kyushu on 1 April 1987 with the privatisation of JNR. A forecourt was completed on the western side at the end of March 2014, and the eastern station-front plaza followed in 2016.

On 29 January 2022 the station building was repainted in Yomiuri Giants colours — the team holds its training camp at the nearby ballpark in the Miyazaki Prefectural Sports Park — and the waiting room displays signed bats and photographs of players.