Shin-Minamata

Weekday departures: 81/day · Sat & holiday departures: 81/day

First / last departure (weekday): 6:36 / 23:32

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (8)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 17 April 2026 to 12 May 2026: the timetables behind these figures were retrieved on different dates.

• Kyushu Shinkansen: Shin-Yatsushiro ⇄ Izumi
• Hisatsu Orange Railway: Tsunagi ⇄ Minamata

The site of Shin-Minamata Station was first established on 19 September 1968 as Hatsuno Signal Stop by Japanese National Railways. With the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987 the signal stop passed to JR Kyushu. When the first segment of the Kyushu Shinkansen opened on 13 March 2004 between Shin-Yatsushiro and Kagoshima-Chūō, a new Shinkansen station named Shin-Minamata was inaugurated at this location and the signal stop was promoted to a full station under the Hisatsu Orange Railway, which took over the Yatsushiro-Sendai segment of the former Kagoshima Main Line on the same day. The JR station building, designed by Makoto Sei Watanabe and opened with the line, received a Kumamoto ArtPolis promotion award.

The JR Shinkansen station building was designed by Makoto Sei Watanabe; the plaza monument "Shin-Minamata Gate", whose branching form was generated by computer algorithm, is by the same architect.