History
Ogawa Station opened on 21 November 1896 as a stop on the original Kyushu Railway in what is now the city of Uki, Kumamoto Prefecture. The Kyushu Railway was nationalised on 1 July 1907, placing the station under the Japanese Government Railway. The original station building was destroyed in an air raid on 27 July 1945. Freight handling was discontinued on 1 October 1962 and parcels on 1 February 1984. With JNR privatisation on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR Kyushu, and the building was rebuilt in 1995. SUGOCA IC card acceptance began on 1 December 2012, a west exit opened on 2 April 2022, and operations returned to direct JR Kyushu management on 1 October 2023.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
The "Ogawa" in the station name does not refer to an actual river — locals had long used the word for the nearby Sunagawa, and that nickname became the place name.