Sakanoue

Weekday departures: 82/day · Sat & holiday departures: 82/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:04 / 23:56

Busiest hour: 9:00–10:00 (6)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.

• Ibusuki Makurazaki Line: Jigenji ⇄ Goino

Sakanoue Station opened on 1 October 1966 as an unstaffed addition to the Ibusuki-Makurazaki Line between Taniyama and Goino, then operated by Japanese National Railways. Staff were assigned from 8 March 1983, and the station passed to JR Kyushu at the 1 April 1987 privatisation. The line itself had been built southward from Nishi-Kagoshima (now Kagoshima-Chūō) in stages from 1930, reaching Ibusuki by December 1934, and was renamed the Ibusuki-Makurazaki Line on 31 October 1963. SUGOCA IC card support was introduced on 1 December 2012, and the station became largely unstaffed under the ANSWER remote-assistance system from 30 May 2020.

Because the International University of Kagoshima is nearby, the station's passenger numbers are high relative to its size, and in fiscal 2024 its average daily number of boarding passengers ranked third among railway stations within Kagoshima City.