History
Midorikawa Station opened on 1 April 1960 as a Japanese National Railways stop serving diesel-railcar passengers only, in what is now the city of Uto, Kumamoto Prefecture. The station is 4.0 km from the Misumi Line's Uto starting point and consists of a single side platform at grade with no station building. It has always been unstaffed. At privatisation on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR Kyushu, whose 'Amakusa-Misumi Line' branding now appears alongside the formal Misumi Line name. The surrounding area is a mixture of paddy fields and small settlements, with land to the north of the station built up on reclaimed ground.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The station's name sign carries an illustration of nearby Awashima Shrine's miniature torii, the gate-crawling ritual for which the shrine is well known throughout the region.