Tabarazaka

Weekday departures: 74/day · Sat & holiday departures: 74/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:45 / 23:59

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (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.

• Kagoshima Main Line: Konoha ⇄ Ueki

Tabaruzaka began life on 1 October 1943 when Japanese Government Railways established a signal box on the existing Kagoshima Main Line. Japanese National Railways upgraded the facility to a full passenger station on 1 October 1965. Staffing was withdrawn in 1970, and JNR's privatisation on 1 April 1987 placed the station under JR Kyushu. From 12 March 2011, the introduction of the Kumamoto Liner rapid service eliminated through-running locals that had previously skipped the platform, though the 2015 timetable revision restored a handful of pass-throughs. SUGOCA IC card service started on 1 December 2012, and from 17 March 2018 every local and section-rapid service has stopped at Tabaruzaka.

Tabaruzaka takes its name from the nearby slope called Tabaruzaka, a name meaning "a sunken road climbing from the cultivated flatland up onto the upland"; the old battlefield of the Seinan War is among the sites near the station.