History
Yunoura Station opened on 12 September 1926 as the terminus of the (first) Hisatsu Line, built by the Railway Ministry in what is now the town of Ashikita, Kumamoto Prefecture. The coastal route was absorbed into the Kagoshima Main Line on 17 October 1927, making the station an intermediate stop. Freight services ended in 1961, baggage handling in 1970, and the station was unstaffed thereafter. The current concrete shelter replaced the wooden building in March 1977. It passed to JR Kyushu at the 1 April 1987 privatisation, and on 13 March 2004 was transferred to the third-sector Hisatsu Orange Railway along with the rest of the Yatsushiro–Sendai stretch following the partial opening of the Kyushu Shinkansen.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The 8.7 km gap from Yunoura to the next stop at Tsunagi is the longest inter-station distance anywhere on the Hisatsu Orange Railway. An intervening signal box, Kuratani, has since been abolished.