History
Akune Station opened on 15 October 1922 as a stop on the Japanese Government Railways' Sendai Line, which was absorbed into the Kagoshima Main Line on 17 October 1927. The original wooden station building was destroyed by a direct hit during the Akune air raid in August 1945; the current wooden building dates from 1949 and was renovated in 2014. With the 1 April 1987 privatisation of Japanese National Railways, the station passed to JR Kyushu. When the Kyushu Shinkansen opened on 13 March 2004, the coastal route between Yatsushiro and Sendai was spun off, and Akune was transferred to the third-sector Hisatsu Orange Railway. Two sidings behind platform 1 — relics of the former freight platform — now store maintenance vehicles.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The original 1922 station building burned down after a direct bomb hit during the August 1945 Akune air raid; the wooden replacement from 1949 still stands.