History
Ginsui Station opened on 1 April 1926 as a new stop added by the Railway Bureau to the existing Kagoshima Main Line in eastern Ōmuta. Freight handling ended on 15 April 1978 and parcel handling on 1 February 1984; the station became unstaffed on 1 November 1986. With the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987, JR Kyushu took over operation. SUGOCA acceptance began on 1 March 2009, and the ticket office was outsourced to a kan'i itaku agent on 1 April 2016 before the ticket window was withdrawn entirely on 1 April 2024. A new toilet block, replacing a 1979 pit facility, was inaugurated on 24 February 2025 after a community crowdfunding campaign.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
The station's name comes from "Shirogane River," the brook running through the area, whose waters were once said to glint silver — local residents and three nearby high schools jointly crowdfunded a 2025 rebuild of the station toilet, which had been a 1979 pit facility.