History
Saigō Station opened on 10 October 1912 as a stop on what is today the Shimabara Railway Line. Station operations were outsourced on 1 August 1966 and freight handling was discontinued on 31 March 1968. The outsourcing arrangement ended on 1 April 2000, at which point the station was destaffed. The station has two staggered side platforms serving two tracks, with the south platform offset slightly toward Kōjirō-machi and the north toward Taishō; the two are connected by an in-station level crossing without barriers or alarms.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-24.
Notes
Saigō Station served the seat of the former Mizuho Town until 2005, when Mizuho merged into Unzen City; the station address — Mizuho-chō Saigō-kara, Unzen-shi — preserves the old town name, and the Mizuho General Branch Office of the Unzen City Hall (formerly Mizuho Town Hall) sits beside the station.