History
Tsurumaru Station was added by Japanese National Railways on 1 February 1958, well after the original Yoshimatsu–Kobayashi line had been built in 1912. By the time Tsurumaru opened, that stretch had already passed through reclassification as the Nippō Main Line in 1923 and demotion to the Kitto Line in 1932. The station was built as an unstaffed halt with no station building — only a concrete-block shelter on the side platform. JR Kyushu inherited it at the 1 April 1987 privatisation. It lies just under a kilometre from the Kagoshima–Miyazaki prefectural border; together with Yoshimatsu it is one of only two Kitto Line stations within Kagoshima Prefecture.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Tsurumaru is one of only two Kitto Line stations located in Kagoshima Prefecture — the prefectural border with Miyazaki lies less than a kilometre to the northeast.