Uminoura

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

First / last departure (weekday): 6:22 / 22:50

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (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: Higo Tanoura ⇄ Sashiki

Uminoura Station opened on 1 June 1959 as a stop on the Japanese National Railways Kagoshima Main Line, in the town of Ashikita, Kumamoto Prefecture. It passed to JR Kyushu at the 1 April 1987 privatisation. On 13 March 2004 the partial opening of the Kyushu Shinkansen transferred the parallel Yatsushiro–Sendai stretch of the Kagoshima Main Line to the third-sector Hisatsu Orange Railway, taking the station with it. Located 26.7 kilometres from the line's Yatsushiro starting point, the station has a single side platform serving one bi-directional track. There is no station building — only an open-fronted shelter on the platform — and the stop is unstaffed.

The station has only an open-fronted platform shelter rather than a proper station building, even though it stands on the former coastal route of the Kagoshima Main Line and remained part of that trunk line until the 2004 transfer to the Hisatsu Orange Railway.