Timetable information
Weekday departures: 24/day · Sat & holiday departures: 24/day
First / last departure (weekday): 6:40 / 23:09
Busiest hour: 14:00–15:00 (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.
Adjacent stations
- Hisatsu Orange Railway: Yunoura ⇄ Shin-Minamata
Location
History
Tsunagi Station opened on 17 October 1927 as a station on the Kagoshima Main Line of Japanese Government Railways. The section to Yunoura was double-tracked on 23 May 1968, and the platform layout was rebuilt from an island into the present opposed-side configuration. Freight ended in 1961, baggage in 1970, and the station became unstaffed under CTC. With the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR Kyushu, and a new station building opened in 1993. When the first segment of the Kyushu Shinkansen opened on 13 March 2004, the Yatsushiro-Sendai stretch of the conventional line was transferred to the third-sector Hisatsu Orange Railway.
Notes
The stretch from Yunoura to Tsunagi is the longest inter-station distance on the Hisatsu Orange Railway Line at 8.7 kilometres.
Sources
- Wikipedia (English) (opens in a new tab)
- Wikipedia (日本語) (opens in a new tab)
- Photo: hyolee2 · CC BY-SA 3.0 (opens in a new tab) · Wikimedia Commons (opens in a new tab)
Last updated: 2026-05-22