Timetable information
Weekday departures: 55/day · Sat & holiday departures: 55/day
First / last departure (weekday): 5:31 / 24:21 (00:21 next day)
Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (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.
Adjacent stations
- Kagoshima Main Line: Sendai (Kagoshima) ⇄ Kobanchaya
Location
History
Kumanojō Station was opened on 1 June 1914 by Japanese Government Railways on what later became the Kagoshima Main Line, in present-day Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. After more than seven decades under successive incarnations of the national railway, it passed to JR Kyushu at the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987. The above-ground station has two side platforms serving two tracks and a small castle-styled station building joined to the platforms by a footbridge. In fiscal 2020 it averaged 349 boarding passengers per day, placing it 254th among the busiest stations of JR Kyushu.
Notes
The compact station building is modelled after a castle; the station's own name, Kumanojō, ends in -jō (城, "castle").
Sources
- Wikipedia (English) (opens in a new tab)
- Photo: Rsa · CC BY-SA 3.0 (opens in a new tab) · Wikimedia Commons (opens in a new tab)
Last updated: 2026-05-22