Wataze

Weekday departures: 63/day · Sat & holiday departures: 63/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:39 / 22:56

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (4)

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: Minami-Setaka ⇄ Yoshino (Fukuoka)

Wataze Station opened on 7 June 1891 as an intermediate stop on the privately operated Kyushu Railway, added between the earlier termini of Kurume and Takase (now Tamana) shortly after the line had been extended south from Kurume. The Kyushu Railway was nationalised on 1 July 1907, placing the station under Japanese Government Railways. The track was redesignated as part of the Hitoyoshi Main Line on 12 October 1909 and then as the Kagoshima Main Line on 21 November 1909. Following the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987, Wataze passed to JR Kyushu, which still operates it as a local-only stop on the Kagoshima Main Line.

A proposal to name the station Futakawa, after the village of Futakawa in Miike District in which it stood, was not adopted. The reasons given were the greater local renown of the Wataze post town, the existence of another Futakawa village in the neighbouring Yame District, and the opening of a Futakawa Station on the Tōkaidō Main Line in Aichi Prefecture in 1896.