Yatsushiro

Uto – Yatsushiro: suspended from 28 July 2026 until 10 October 2026 (planned reopening; operator forecast, not yet confirmed) Check the operator for replacement transport stops and times. Full details: Kagoshima Main Line →

Yatsushiro – Hitoyoshi: suspended from 4 July 2020 Check the operator for replacement transport stops and times. Full details: Hisatsu Line →

Yatsushiro – Higo Tanoura: suspended from 28 July 2026 Check the operator for replacement transport stops and times. Full details: Hisatsu Orange Railway →

Weekday departures: 69/day · Sat & holiday departures: 69/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:07 / 22:54

Busiest hour: 8:00–9:00 (6)

0:00 ─ 23:00

These are typical departures in the timetable data (see the date below), not a live count: they may include services affected by the notice above.

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026 to 12 May 2026: the timetables behind these figures were retrieved on different dates.

• Kagoshima Main Line: Shin-Yatsushiro
• Hisatsu Orange Railway: Higokoda

Yatsushiro Station opened on 21 November 1896 as a stop on the Kyushu Railway, originally sited near today's Demachi Park west of the present location. After the 1 July 1907 nationalisation, the station was relocated to its current site on 1 June 1908 when the line to Hitoyoshi opened, and the old site became the Kumagawa freight depot. Air raids by US Navy carrier aircraft on 11 August 1945 brought down the Kuma River railway bridge between the station and Higo-Kōda. The wooden station building completed in 1911 remained in use until a temporary structure was substituted on 14 April 2018; a new traditional-style steel building entered service on 16 February 2019. On 13 March 2004 the section south of the station was transferred to the third-sector Hisatsu Orange Railway, and on 1 October 2023 the station became directly JR-managed.

The former Kumagawa freight station was nominally abolished on 10 June 1945 but in practice carried on operating as a goods-handling facility within Yatsushiro Station until 12 November 1989, when a new freight facility using the arrival-and-departure-track loading system — the first such installation in an AC-electrified section — opened beside the passenger station.