Minamata

Weekday departures: 25/day · Sat & holiday departures: 25/day

First / last departure (weekday): 6:30 / 21:54

Busiest hour: 21:00–22:00 (3)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 12 May 2026.

• Hisatsu Orange Railway: Shin-Minamata ⇄ Fukuro

Minamata Station opened on 21 July 1926 as a station on the Japanese Government Railways Sendai Main Line; the Yatsushiro-Sendai-Kagoshima route was incorporated into the Kagoshima Main Line on 17 October 1927, when the Yunoura-Minamata section opened. The Yamano West Line branched here from 22 April 1934, but the successor Yamano Line was discontinued on 1 February 1988. Freight handling, including the spur to the Chisso plant, ended on 1 November 1986. The present station building was completed in 1955, and the Midori no Madoguchi ticket office opened in March 1972. JR Kyushu inherited the station on 1 April 1987. When the first Kyushu Shinkansen segment opened on 13 March 2004, the Yatsushiro-Sendai stretch was transferred to the third-sector Hisatsu Orange Railway, which now operates Minamata.

A spur once ran from this station into the Chisso plant northwest of the station, carrying chemical raw materials and finished products; it was suspended around 1985 and abolished the following year, when the station's freight handling ended.