History
Arisa Station opened on 21 November 1896 as a station on the Kyushu Railway, which was nationalised on 1 July 1907. A private freight siding to the Nissan Chemical Industries Kagami plant west of the station closed on 1 November 1958, freight handling ended on 1 February 1984 and baggage handling on 14 March 1985. With the 1 April 1987 privatisation of Japanese National Railways the station passed to JR Kyushu, and SUGOCA service began on 1 December 2012. The aging wooden station building was demolished after termite damage and replaced on 22 March 2014 by a steel single-storey structure of about 76 square metres. The remaining ticket window was retired and the station became unstaffed full-time on 18 March 2023.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The "Arisa" name is thought to derive from the older reading "Arasa" (新坂), meaning "new slope", which gradually shifted to "Arisa" before being fixed in 1896 with the kanji 有佐.