History
Tsukumi Station opened on 25 October 1916 when the Railway Bureau extended the Hōshū Main Line south from Yanagigaura to Saiki, with the station added as an intermediate stop on the new track. The line was renamed the Nippō Main Line on 15 December 1923. Following the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987, control passed to JR Kyushu. The line through Tsukumi was flooded during Typhoon Talim in September 2017, suspending services for three months until normal operation resumed on 18 December 2017. From 1 October 2023 station management transferred from the JR Kyushu Service Support subsidiary back to direct operation, and on 15 March 2025 the freight siding was decommissioned. All limited express services stop here.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Since 24 October 2009 the train-approach jingle at Tsukumi has been the folk song "Nagori Yuki," composed by local-born musician Shōzō Ise about the station itself, and a stone monument inscribed with the lyrics stands on the platform.