History
Kawashiri Station opened on 11 August 1894 as a Kyushu Railway stop in what is now the Minami-ku ward of Kumamoto. Nationalisation followed on 1 July 1907. The station was damaged in an air raid on 12 August 1945, and freight handling ceased on 1 April 1967. JR Kyushu took it over at the 1987 JNR privatisation. The 1917 second-generation wooden station building remains in use. SUGOCA service began on 1 December 2012, and the layout was simplified in March 2019 when the former platform 2 was removed and its tracks taken up, leaving two side platforms. On 1 October 2023 the station was converted from an outsourced operation to a directly managed JR Kyushu facility.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The station served as a location in director Hirokazu Kore-eda's 2011 film I Wish (Kiseki), which centers on a meeting of Kyushu Shinkansen trains.