History
Komenotsu Station opened on 15 October 1923 as a station on the Sendai Line of Japanese Government Railways, which was incorporated into the Kagoshima Main Line on 17 October 1927. Freight handling ended in 1961, and the station became a sub-station of Izumi under CTC from 1970, although a Komenotsu stationmaster role was retained until 1984 to support residual freight at Izumi. The wooden station building was demolished in July 1985 and replaced. With the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987 the station passed to JR Kyushu, and on 13 March 2004 transferred to the third-sector Hisatsu Orange Railway when the Kyushu Shinkansen opened.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Komenotsu means "port of rice"; the station name preserves the area's old reputation as a coastal shipping point for the local rice harvest.