History
Seta Station opened on 11 November 1916 as a station on the Railway Board's Miyaji Light Rail Line, on the new Higo-Ōzu - Tateno extension. The original station was further east, in Seta, Seta village. In September 1922 the station was relocated to its present site in Ōbayashi, Seta village, and the Miyaji Light Rail Line was renamed the Miyaji Line. With the 2 December 1928 line-name change the station became part of the Hōhi Main Line. Freight handling ended on 1 October 1962, parcel handling on 30 November 1983, and the station became unstaffed. JR Kyushu took over on 1 April 1987. On 14 April 2016 the station was suspended due to landslides caused by the Kumamoto earthquake; no rail-replacement bus served the station during the suspension. Operation resumed on 8 August 2020 with the reopening of the Aso - Higo-Ōzu section. The station is in Ōbayashi, Ōzu-machi, Kikuchi District, Kumamoto Prefecture.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Seta now has two side platforms serving two tracks linked by an in-station level crossing — originally it had a single-side platform and an island platform for two tracks, with three tracks in total, but the middle track was removed. A simple station building stands at the single platform and a siding extends beyond it. Because there is another Seta Station on JR West's Tōkaidō (Biwako) Line in Ōtsu, Shiga, tickets issued at this station are printed '(豊肥) 瀬田'.