History
Ushinohama Station opened on 15 October 1922 as a Japanese Government Railways stop on the Sendai Line, which was incorporated into the Kagoshima Main Line on 17 October 1927. Freight ended in 1961, baggage handling in 1970, and the station became unstaffed the same year — the freight siding and freight platform were removed thereafter, and the original wooden station building was demolished around 1985. 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, Ushinohama was transferred to the third-sector Hisatsu Orange Railway alongside the rest of the former coastal route. The station has long been known as a scenic spot, with the East China Sea and the Ushinohama coastal scenic area lying immediately adjacent to the platforms.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
The station's old building site has cycled through three uses since 1987 — a JR Kyushu udon-and-soba stand, a successor noodle shop, and finally an empty lot after 2016.