Kinko

Weekday departures: 55/day · Sat & holiday departures: 55/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:19 / 23:38

Busiest hour: 18:00–19:00 (5)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.

• JR Nippo Line: Kajiki ⇄ Chosa

Kinkō Station opened on 3 March 1986 as a petition station along an already running stretch of the Nippō Main Line, 443.3 kilometres south of Kokura. The Kagoshima Prefectural Housing Corporation funded its entire construction so that the new Kajiki housing estate it was developing in Aira would have a nearby rail link. The station was unstaffed at opening, then run as an outsourced operation from privatisation until JR Kyushu retracted staff across its network in March 2015. The line through Kinkō was cut off by the August 1993 floods between Nishi-Miyakonojō and Kagoshima. SUGOCA acceptance began in December 2012, and the station has been fully unstaffed since 14 March 2015.

Kinkō Town, in Kimotsuki District elsewhere in Kagoshima Prefecture, is unrelated to the station: the town was created by a 2005 merger of the former towns of Ōnejime and Tashiro, and no railway has ever run through it.