History
Kariu Station was added by Japanese National Railways to the existing Nippō Main Line on 15 April 1959, after a residents' campaign begun around 1953 and construction starting in July 1958; building the station required diverting the parallel National Route 217 some 470 metres seawards. Parcel handling ended on 30 March 1972 and the station became unstaffed at the same time. Control passed to JR Kyushu at the 1987 privatisation of JNR. Service was suspended along the Usuki–Saiki section after Typhoon Talim damaged the line in September 2017; rail operations resumed on 18 December that year. The unstaffed station has two side platforms linked by a footbridge.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Building the station required relocating National Route 217 some 470 metres seawards so the line and road could share the narrow coastal strip.