Yoshimatsu

Weekday departures: 8/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 8/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:27 / 19:48

Busiest hour in the available data: 5:00–6:00 (1)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.

The timetable data is incomplete for some or all lines at this station, so the weekday and Sat & holiday figures are departures in the available timetable data, not totals.

Lines where the timetable data is complete: Kitto Line

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• Hisatsu Line: no timetable data

• Kitto Line: Tsurumaru

Yoshimatsu Station opened on 5 September 1903, when the Kagoshima Line was extended to this station from Yokogawa Station (now Ōsumi-Yokogawa Station). On 21 November 1909 the line was extended through to Hitoyoshi Station, linking Moji to Kagoshima by a single continuous railway, and Yoshimatsu flourished as a junction where lines toward Kumamoto, Miyazaki, and Kagoshima converged. In 1923 the Kokura–Yoshimatsu section was designated the Nippō Main Line, but when the new Kagoshima Main Line via the coastal route was completed in 1927, the inland line including this station was downgraded to the Hisatsu Line, and in 1932 the Yoshimatsu–Miyakonojō section was also split off as the Kittō Line. JR Kyushu took over the station at the division and privatization of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987. In March 2022 the CTC center was relocated to Hayato Station, and with the end of ticketing operations the station became unstaffed. A crew room for overnight stays is still maintained there.

The two-story station building, completed on 13 April 1968, retains traces of the era when the station bustled as a key junction where lines toward Kumamoto, Miyazaki, and Kagoshima met, and in front of the station, C55-class steam locomotive No. 52 and a stone fuel storehouse are preserved on static display as a South Kyushu Heritage of Industrial Modernization site.